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Measuring Mortality in Cross-sectional Surveys: Which Methods Are Best and Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2022

Bradley A. Woodruff
Bradley A. Woodruff*
Affiliation:
International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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In emergency situations, mortality rates are critical indicators of a population's health status. When surveillance systems are not yet functioning or cannot be implemented, rates can be derived from data collected in populationbased, cross-sectional surveys.

Keywords

biasesbirthsbrief historycensusculturesdata collectiondeath ratesindicatorslimitationsmeasurementspast-householdsurveys
Type
Symposium: Assessment of the Public Health Effects of Complex Emergencies
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 17 , supplement S2: Abstracts of Scientific and Invited Papers for 13th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine , December 2002 , pp. S20
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2002