Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better?

Francesco Checchi; Les Roberts

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050146

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Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better?

Francesco Checchi ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:francesco.checchi@lshtm.ac.uk
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Les Roberts

Documenting Mortality in Crises: What Keeps Us from Doing Better?

Francesco Checchi,
Les Roberts

Published: July 1, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050146

About the Authors

Francesco Checchi: *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:francesco.checchi@lshtm.ac.uk
Les Roberts

Competing Interests

Both authors were involved in some of the surveys mentioned in the article to support their arguments: FC coordinated surveys in Darfur and Northern Uganda, and LR coordinated surveys in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq.

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