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Causes of death in Tonga: quality of certification and implications for statistics

Karen Carter1*, Sione Hufanga2, Chalapati Rao1, Sione Akauola3, Alan D Lopez1, Rasika Rampatige1 and Richard Taylor1,4

1 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia

2 Ministry of Health, Tonga, Australia

3 Western Health, Melbourne, Australia

4 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick (Sydney), NSW, Australia

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Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:4 doi:10.1186/1478-7954-10-4

Published: 5 March 2012

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World Health Organization. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Tenth Revision. Geneva: 2007 [cited 26/11/2010] http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ webcite.

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Source data for selection of final cause-of-death in matched records, and reason for selection; Tongatapu (2008).

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