Monitoring mortality in forced migrants--can Bayesian methods help us to do better with the (little) data we have?

Peter Heudtlass; Niko Speybroeck; Debarati Guha-Sapir

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001887

Monitoring mortality in forced migrants--can Bayesian methods help us to do better with the (little) data we have?

PLoS Med. 2015 Oct 20;12(10):e1001887. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001887. eCollection 2015 Oct.

Authors

Peter Heudtlass¹, Niko Speybroeck¹, Debarati Guha-Sapir¹

Affiliation

¹ Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

Abstract

In crisis situations, data are scarce-Peter Heudtlass and colleagues explore ways of best understanding the extra risk of death borne by forced migrants.

MeSH terms

Bayes Theorem*
Cause of Death
Humans
Iraq / epidemiology
Mortality / trends*
Sudan / epidemiology
Transients and Migrants*
Vulnerable Populations

Grants and funding

The authors have not received any funding for this work.