Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are … cause-specific mortality data that are more complete and continuous than those currently available. The tools and methods … research and development monitoring. If the global community wishes to have mortality measurements 5 or 10 years hence, the …

consideration of a national education program on the assumption that prostate cancer screening over age 70 does not reduce mortality …

Objective To compare mortality burden estimates based on direct measurement of levels and causes in communities with … indirect estimates based on combining health facility cause-specific mortality structures with community measurement of … mortality levels. Methods. Data from sentinel vital registration (SVR) with verbal autopsy (VA) were used to determine the cause …

cancer in Australia together with the mortality reduction achieved in randomised controlled trials. Uncertainty in the model …

globally only about one-third of countries have access to such information. For countries currently without adequate mortality …-based mortality surveillance is one such approach. This paper provides methods for addressing appropriate sample size considerations … in relation to mortality surveillance, with particular reference to situations in which prior information on mortality is …