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Atlas of African health statistics 2022: Health situation analysis of the WHO African Region

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Africa.
The population of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) African Region was estimated to be 1 120 161 000 in 2020 and about 14.4% of the world’s population of 7 758 157 000. It was 8 billion in 20211 . It is the third largest population among the WHO regions after South-East Asia and the Western Pacif...
Health Status Indicators, Data Analysis, Health Statistics, Statistics, Health Information Systems, Health Planning, Mortality, Atlas, Africa, World Health Organization
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COVID-19 death: A novel method of improving its identification when a patient has multiple diagnoses

Ngene, Nnabuike C; Moodley, Jagidesa.
S. Afr. j. infect. dis. (Online); 37 (1), 2022
Assigning a primary cause of death to a deceased patient who had multiple principal diagnoses including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is challenging because of the difficulty in selecting the most appropriate cause. To proffer a solution, the authors reviewed the literature on assigning a primary c...
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Diagnosis, Statistics
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