Open AccessMeasuring Adult Mortality Using Sibling Survival: A New Analytical Method and New Results for 44 Countries, 1974–2006
Author(s) -
Ziad Obermeyer,
Julie Knoll Rajaratnam,
Chang Park,
Emmanuela Gakidou,
Margaret C. Hogan,
Alan D López,
Christopher J L Murray
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000260
Subject(s) - sibling , demography , recall bias , logistic regression , public health , mortality rate , medicine , pessimism , survey data collection , gerontology , environmental health , psychology , statistics , mathematics , developmental psychology , epistemology , pathology , nursing , sociology , philosophy
Julie Rajaratnam and colleagues describe a novel method, called the Corrected Sibling Survival method, to measure adult mortality in countries without good vital registration by use of histories taken from surviving siblings.
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