Applying the InterVA-4 Model to Determine Causes of Death in Rural Ethiopia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: In Ethiopia, most deaths take place at home and routine certification of cause of death by physicians is lacking. As a result, reliable cause of death (CoD) data are often not available.
Geert Jan Dinant +2 more
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Strengthening Standardised Interpretation of Verbal Autopsy Data: The New InterVA-4 Tool. [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2012 Background: Verbal autopsy (VA) is the only available approach for determining the cause of many deaths, where routine certification is not in place. Therefore, it is important to use standards and methods for VA that maximise efficiency, consistency and
Samuel J Clark +2 more
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Childhood Cause-Specific Mortality in Rural Western Kenya: Application of the InterVA-4 Model [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Assessing the progress in achieving the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals in terms of population health requires consistent and reliable information on cause-specific mortality, which is often rare in resource-constrained countries.
John Vulule +2 more
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InterVA-4 as a Public Health Tool for Measuring HIV/AIDS Mortality: A Validation Study From Five African Countries [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2013 Background: Reliable population-based data on HIV infection and AIDS mortality in sub-Saharan Africa are scanty, even though that is the region where most of the world’s AIDS deaths occur.
Jim Todd, Kobus Herbst, Simon Gregson
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Cause of Death During 2009–2012, Using a Probabilistic Model (InterVA-4): An Experience From Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System in India [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Objectives: The present study aimed to estimate the age and cause-specific mortality in Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) site for the years 2009 to 2012, using a probabilistic model (InterVA-4).
Puneet Misra +2 more
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Estimating Cause of Adult (15+ Years) Death Using InterVA-4 in a Rural District of Southern Ghana [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Data needed to estimate causes of death and the pattern of these deaths are scarce in sub-Saharan Africa. Such data are very important for targeting, monitoring, and evaluating health interventions.
Patricia Akweongo +2 more
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Causes of Death Among Persons of All Ages Within the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kenya, Determined From Verbal Autopsies Interpreted Using the InterVA-4 Model [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: The vast majority of deaths in the Kilifi study area are not recorded through official systems of vital registration. As a result, few data are available regarding causes of death in this population. Objective: To describe the causes of death
Benjamin Tsofa +2 more
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Causes of Death in Two Rural Demographic Surveillance Sites in Bangladesh, 2004–2010: Automated Coding of Verbal Autopsies Using InterVA-4 [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Objective: Population-based information on causes of death (CoD) by age, sex, and area is critical for countries with limited resources to identify and address key public health issues. This study analysed the demographic surveillance and verbal autopsy (
Nurul Alam, Ali Ashraf
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Causes of infant deaths and patterns of associated factors in Eastern Ethiopia: Results of verbal autopsy (InterVA-4) study. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Background In a range of setting, detecting and generate empirical information on the cause of infant death and contributing risk factors at population level is basically utmost essential to take evidence-based measures in reducing infant morbidity and ...
Mebrahtom S, Worku A, Gage DJ.
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Who died of what in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cause of death analysis using InterVA-4. [PDF]
Glob Health Action, 2014 Background: For public health purposes, it is important to see whether men and women in different age groups die of the same causes in South Africa.
Mossong J, Byass P, Herbst K.
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