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- Title
Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: a new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006.
- Authors
Obermeyer, Ziad; Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll; Park, Chang H; Gakidou, Emmanuela; Hogan, Margaret C; Lopez, Alan D; Murray, Christopher J L
- Abstract
For several decades, global public health efforts have focused on the development and application of disease control programs to improve child survival in developing populations. The need to reliably monitor the impact of such intervention programs in countries has led to significant advances in demographic methods and data sources, particularly with large-scale, cross-national survey programs such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Although no comparable effort has been undertaken for adult mortality, the availability of large datasets with information on adult survival from censuses and household surveys offers an important opportunity to dramatically improve our knowledge about levels and trends in adult mortality in countries without good vital registration. To date, attempts to measure adult mortality from questions in censuses and surveys have generally led to implausibly low levels of adult mortality owing to biases inherent in survey data such as survival and recall bias. Recent methodological developments and the increasing availability of large surveys with information on sibling survival suggest that it may well be timely to reassess the pessimism that has prevailed around the use of sibling histories to measure adult mortality.
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 4, pe1000260
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.1000260