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Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?
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BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: Demographic surveillance--the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of deaths, and migration in a population over time--is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly in investigating and tackling health disparities. An international network of demographic surveillance systems (DSS) now operates, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Thirty-eight DSS sites are coordinated by the International Network for the Continuous Demographic Evaluat...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050057
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- e57
- Publication date:
- 2008-02-01
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1549-1676
- ISSN:
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1549-1277
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- English
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- pubs:40700
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40700
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- Chandramohan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- © 2008 Chandramohan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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