Abstract
More than half of the world's deaths pass by undocumented as to cause [1]. Whilst the appropriate focus of health services may well be the care of the living, consistent and reliable cause-of-death data also constitute a crucial and major resource for health planning and prioritisation, and their lack in many settings is a major concern. Two new papers from Christopher Murray and colleagues in this issue of PLoS Medicine [2,3] report important methodological advances which should go some way towards filling these data gaps.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e333 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | PLoS Medicine |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2007 |