title: Improving completeness of birth and death registration in rural Africa.
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMI Résiliences, Bondy, France; Institut Pasteur, Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France. Electronic address: michel.garenne@pasteur.fr.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garenne
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Collinson
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Chodziwadziwa W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Kabudula
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: F Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Gómez-Olivé
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kahn
authors.affiliation: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tollman
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D001719:Birth Certificates; D003644:Death Certificates; D006801:Humans; D012042:Registries / Q000592:standards*; D012424:Rural Population