Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better?
Open Access
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 5 (7), e146
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050146
Abstract
Francesco Checchi and Les Roberts discuss how mortality among crisis-affected populations is currently documented, barriers to better documentation, and how these barriers might be overcome.Keywords
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