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IJE Advance Access originally published online on May 24, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):651-653; doi:10.1093/ije/dym108
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Reliable measurement of the causes of mortality in developing countries

Prabhat Jha1,*, Binu Jacob1 and Rajesh Kumar2

1 Centre for Global Health Research, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2 School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

* Corresponding author. E-mail: prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca

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Public health in industrialized countries was transformed when vital statistics on age, sex and socioeconomic distribution of deaths by cause became available in the 19th and 20th centuries.1 These statistics have shown good news, such as the large declines in under-5 mortality and tuberculosis mortality during the 20th century. They have also raised alarm; in the mid 1940s, a dramatic increase in lung cancer deaths in British and American men after World War II led to a great deal of research on smoking.2 In the early 1980s, routine mortality data from San Francisco revealed an exceptional increase in immune-related deaths among young men and signalled the start of the American HIV-1 epidemic.3 Routinely collected data have helped to spur further research and public health action and contributed to the enormous increases in life expectancy in the 20th century.4

About 46 million of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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