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SUBMITTER: Bawah A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4909223 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bawah Ayaga A Houle Brian B Alam Nurul N Razzaque Abdur A Streatfield Peter Kim PK Debpuur Cornelius C Welaga Paul P Oduro Abraham A Hodgson Abraham A Tollman Stephen S Collinson Mark M Kahn Kathleen K Toan Tran Khan TK Phuc Ho Dang HD Chuc Nguyen Thi Kim NT Sankoh Osman O Clark Samuel J SJ
PloS one 20160615 6
This paper contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four demographic surveillance sites: Agincourt (South Africa), Navrongo (Ghana) in Africa; Filabavi (Vietnam), Matlab (Bangladesh) in Asia. We model mortality using discrete time event history analysis. T ...[more]