Mortality measurement matters: improving data collection and estimation methods for child and adult mortality

Colin Mathers; Ties Boerma

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000265

Mortality measurement matters: improving data collection and estimation methods for child and adult mortality

PLoS Med. 2010 Apr 13;7(4):e1000265. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000265.

Authors

Colin Mathers¹, Ties Boerma

Affiliation

¹ Department of Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. mathersc@who.int

Abstract

Colin Mathers and Ties Boerma discuss three research articles in PLoS Medicine that address the measurement and analysis of child and adult mortality data collected through death registration, censuses, and household surveys.

MeSH terms

Adult
Child
Child Mortality
Data Collection / methods*
Humans
Mortality*
Population Dynamics
Registries / statistics & numerical data*