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A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone (Series 1st of 4)

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2007

Authors

Setel, Philip W
Macfarlane, Sarah B.
Szreter, Simon
Mikkelsen, Lene
Jha, Prabhat
Stout, Susan
AbouZahr, Carla
Hull, Terence
Bawah, Ayaga A
Cleland, John

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Lancet Publishing Group

Abstract

Most people in Africa and Asia are born and die without leaving a trace in any legal record or official statistic. Absence of reliable data for births, deaths, and causes of death are at the root of this scandal of invisibility, which renders most of the

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Keywords: birth certificate; death certificate; demography; human; priority journal; registration; review; statistical analysis; Developing Countries; Humans; Population Surveillance; Public Health; Registries; Vital Statistics; World Health

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/51463

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ANU Research Publications

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Lancet, The (UK edition)

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10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61307-5

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2037-12-31

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