Adaptation of a Probabilistic Method (InterVA) of Verbal Autopsy to Improve the Interpretation of Cause of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death in Malawi, Nepal, and Zimbabwe [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used method for analyzing cause of death in absence of vital registration systems. We adapted the InterVA method to extrapolate causes of death for stillbirths and neonatal deaths from verbal autopsy ...
Peter Byass +2 more
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Performance of InterVA for Assigning Causes of Death to Verbal Autopsies: Multisite Validation Study Using Clinical Diagnostic Gold Standards [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background InterVA is a widely disseminated tool for cause of death attribution using information from verbal autopsies. Several studies have attempted to validate the concordance and accuracy of the tool, but the main limitation of these studies is that
Alan D. Lopez +2 more
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An Integrated Approach to Processing WHO-2016 Verbal Autopsy Data: The InterVA-5 Model [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2019 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
exaly +5 more sources
Global Health Action, 2013 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
doaj +2 more sources
Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Chifundo Kanjala +8 more
doaj +3 more sources
Burden and causes of pregnancy-related mortality in The Gambia: evidence from census and health and demographic surveillance data [PDF]
BMJ Public Health, 2023 Background The Gambia lacks capacity to estimate its burden and causes of pregnancy-related mortality (PRM) to guide reproductive health programming. We used census and Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) data from Farafenni and Basse to ...
Georges Reniers +6 more
doaj +2 more sources
Validating the InterVA Model to Estimate the Burden of Mortality From Verbal Autopsy Data: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: In countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death.
Sebsibe Tadesse
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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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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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