Volume 53 - Article 32 | Pages 1045–1062
Gender disparities in death registration during the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban African setting
By Orsola Torrisi, Amabelia Rodrigues, Sabine Margarete Damerow, Ane Fisker, Didier Abdel Fernandes, Stéphane Helleringer
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