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. 2009 Nov;6(11):e1000155.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000155. Epub 2009 Nov 24.

The unequal world of health data

Peter Byass  1
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The unequal world of health data

Peter Byass. PLoS Med. 2009 Nov.

Abstract

Peter Byass argues that less data are available on the health of the poor than of the rich, and discusses several alternative strategies to improve the representativeness of health data.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Proportion of births registered versus per capita annual income (log scale) for 151 countries with available data (http://www.who.int/whosis).
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