Deaths ascribed to non-communicable diseases among rural Kenyan adults are proportionately increasing: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system, 2003-2010

Penelope A. Phillips-Howard,Kayla F. Laserson,Nyaguara Amek,Caryl Beynon,Sonia Y. Angell,Sammy Khagayi,Peter Byass,Mary J. Hamel,Anne Maria van Eijk,Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez,Laurence Slutsker,Kevin M. De Cock,John M. Vulule,Frank Odhiambo

Deaths ascribed to non-communicable diseases among rural Kenyan adults are proportionately increasing: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system, 2003-2010

2014

Penelope A. Phillips-Howard
Kayla F. Laserson
Nyaguara Amek
Caryl Beynon
Sonia Y. Angell
Sammy Khagayi
Peter Byass
Mary J. Hamel
Anne Maria van Eijk
Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez
Laurence Slutsker
Kevin M. De Cock
John M. Vulule
Frank Odhiambo

BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) result in more deaths globally than other causes. Monitoring systems require strengthening to attribute the NCD burden and deaths in low and middle-inco ...

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Demographic surveillance system
Suicide prevention
Kenya
Environmental health
Injury prevention
Occupational safety and health
Mortality rate
Medicine
poison control
Human factors and ergonomics

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