Rob E Dorrington

Biographic Data

ID93094
NAMERob E Dorrington
GIVEN NAMESRob E
FAMILY NAMEDorrington
SIGNATUREDORRINGTON R E
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012

    Open AccessVictoria Pillay-Van Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2016

    BACKGROUND: The poor health of South Africans is known to be associated with a quadruple disease burden. In the second National Burden of Disease (NBD) study, we aimed to analyse cause of death data for 1997-2012 and develop national, population group, and provincial estimates of the levels and causes of mortality. METHOD: We used underlying cause of death data from death notifications for 1997-2012 obtained from Statistics South Africa. These da…

  • Prospects for HIV control in South Africa

    Open AccessLeigh F Johnson, Calvin Chiu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: The goal of virtual elimination of horizontal and mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa (SA) has been proposed, but there have been few systematic investigations of which interventions are likely to be most critical to reducing HIV incidence. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate SA's potential to achieve virtual elimination targets and to identify which interventions will be most critical to achieving HIV incidence reduct…

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013

    Open AccessNicholas J Kassebaum, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013

    Open AccessHaidong Wang, Chelsea A Liddell et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2014

    BACKGROUND: Remarkable financial and political efforts have been focused on the reduction of child mortality during the past few decades. Timely measurements of levels and trends in under-5 mortality are important to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) target of reduction of child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, and to identify models of success. METHODS: We generated updated estimates of child mortality i…

  • Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa

    Open AccessJané Joubert, Chalapati Rao et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2012

    The value of good-quality mortality data for public health is widely acknowledged. While effective civil registration systems remains the 'gold standard' source for continuous mortality measurement, less than 25% of deaths are registered in most African countries. Alternative data collection systems can provide mortality data to complement those from civil registration, given an understanding of data source characteristics and data quality. We ai…

  • Used for ill; used for good

    Tom A Moultrie, Rob E Dorrington et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2012Cited by: 2References: 10

    Data on race have been collected in South African censuses for a century. We examine the role played by the census in solidifying race as a social statistic and show that, in contrast to the majority of situations, operational and legislative factors rendered the census largely unimportant as a vehicle for doing this. Since 1994, race has been entirely self-reported and not subject to state reinterpretation. We examine the implications of this fo…

  • Maternal mortality in South Africa

    Open AccessRob E Dorrington, Rob Dorrington et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2011Cited by: 1References: 1