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Family practitioner primary health care surveillance project: report for 1996

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1st Author : de Villiers, J.T
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Publisher: Other/ unknown/ unpublished
Publication Date: 9/1997
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Publication Type: Reports (General)
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Summary Sout Africa, like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, has a scarcity of mortality and morbidity information. The health of a nation depends to a large extent on the quality of the information systems supporting its public health system. Public health surveillance (PHS) is an important component of such an information system.
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