World mortality in 2000 : life tables for 191 countries /
Reliable information on the numbers of people who die in various countries according to age and sex is a fundamental requirement for setting health priorities and evaluation health programmes. Mortality levels and trends have been monitored in some countries for centuries, while in others, particula...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French Spanish |
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Geneva, Switzerland :
World Health Organization,
©2002.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0585473137 9780585473130 9789241562041 9241562048 9240681779 9789240681774 9786610060375 6610060371 1280060379 9781280060373 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Reliable information on the numbers of people who die in various countries according to age and sex is a fundamental requirement for setting health priorities and evaluation health programmes. Mortality levels and trends have been monitored in some countries for centuries, while in others, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is currently known about adult mortality. This uncertainty has increased in the 1990s due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, precisely at the time when priority setting in health requires reliable information on mortality levels in countries and regions. This book provides d. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 512 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language Note: | English, French, Spanish. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |