Trends in non-communicable disease mortality among adult residents in Nairobi's slums, 2003-2011: applying InterVA-4 to verbal autopsy data. [PDF]
Background: About 80% of deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) occur in developing countries such as Kenya. However, not much is known about the burden of NCDs in slums, which account for about 60% of the residences of the urban population in ...
Oti SO, van de Vijver S, Kyobutungi C.
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An Integrated Approach to Processing WHO-2016 Verbal Autopsy Data: The InterVA-5 Model [PDF]
Background Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause much uncertainty for health planning.
Peter Byass +2 more
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Assigning Cause of Maternal Death: A Comparison of Findings by a Facility-Based Review Team, an Expert Panel Using the New ICD-MM Cause Classification and a Computer-Based Program (InterVA-4) [PDF]
ObjectiveTo compare methodology used to assign cause of and factors contributing to maternal death.DesignReproductive Age Mortality Study.SettingMalawi.PopulationMaternal deaths among women of reproductive age.MethodsWe compared cause of death as assigned by a facility‐based maternal death review team, an expert panel using the International ...
Nynke van den Broek
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AbstrakLatar Belakang: Data penyebab kematian adalah sumber penting perencanaan kebijakan kesehatan, tetapi ketersediaan dan kualitas data kurang di banyak bagian dunia, verbal autopsy dapat dijadikan suatu alternatif terhadap sistem pencatatan angka dan
Susi Shorayasari +2 more
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Background: The Spectrum computer package is used to generate national AIDS mortality estimates in settings where vital registration systems are lacking.
Samuel Oji Oti +3 more
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Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]
Background: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and ...
P. Kim Streatfield +27 more
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HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]
Background: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level.
P. Kim Streatfield +59 more
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality trends among people with and without HIV in the Siaya health and demographic surveillance system, Kenya, 2011-2018. [PDF]
Background All-cause mortality among people with HIV (PWH) in sub-Saharan Africa declined after antiretroviral therapy’s introduction, but data in rural settings on evolving causes of death as this population age remain limited. Objectives To compare all-
Ambia J +6 more
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Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites [PDF]
Background: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis.
P. Kim Streatfield +54 more
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Agreement between physicians and the InterVA-4 model in assigning causes of death: the role of recall period and characteristics specific to the deceased and the respondent. [PDF]
BackgroundIn the absence of routine death registration, the InterVA model is a newmethodology being used as a physician alternative method to interpret verbalautopsy (VA) data in resource-poor settings.
Tadesse S.
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