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- The United Nations and other international agencies should continue to generate global health indicators through their traditional sources of data.
- Stronger collaboration is needed, however, with southern-based organisations such as the INDEPTH Network in the generation of the estimates and determining how they should be published.
- In the absence of effective vital registration systems in many low- and middle-income countries, data generated by health and demographic surveillance systems could strengthen global estimates, especially in the area of directly measured cause of death statistics.
This paper is part of a PLoS Medicine cluster of articles discussing the current state of global health estimates and debating the way into the future.
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1. Byass P (2010) The Imperfect World of Global Health Estimates. PLoS Med 7: e1006. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001006
2. Boerma T, Mathers C, Abouzahr C (2010) WHO and Global Health Monitoring: The Way Forward. PLoS Med 7: e373. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed. 1000373
3. Murray C, Lopez A (2010) Production and Analysis of Health Indicators: The Role of Academia. PLoS Med 7: e1004. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001004
4. Graham W, Adjei S (2010) A Call for Responsible Estimation of Global Health. PLoS Med 7: 1003. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001003