750 Circulation February 12, 2013 30% of all subjects, these differences crossed a major
disease category. Interestingly, this study confirmed that diseases of the circulatory system …

Background Assessing the causes of death across all regions of the world requires a
framework for integrating, and analysing, the fragmentary information that is available on …

Objective To estimate cause-of-death distributions in the early (0–6 days of age) and late (7–
27 days of age) neonatal periods, for 194 countries between 2000 and 2013. Methods For …

The burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income
countries is increasing. We outline a framework for monitoring of such diseases and review …

The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health
(INDEPTH) Network is an umbrella organization for a group of independent health research …

Vital statistics generated through civil registration systems are the major source of
continuous monitoring of births and deaths over time. The usefulness of vital statistics …

To determine the magnitude of risk factors and causes of premature mortality associated
with epilepsy in low‐and middle‐income countries (LMIC s). We conducted a systematic …

Background: For understanding epidemiological transition, Health and Demographic
Surveillance System plays an important role in developing and resource-constraint setup …

Background Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will
require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for …

Objective To provide an accurate estimate of violent war deaths. Design Analysis of survey
data on mortality, adjusted for sampling bias and censoring, from nationally representative …