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Value of Verbal Autopsy in a Fragile Setting: Reported versus Estimated Community Deaths Associated with COVID-19, Banadir, Somalia

Pathogens, 2023
Background: Accurate mortality data associated with infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are often unavailable in countries with fragile health systems such as Somalia. We compared officially reported COVID-19 deaths in Somalia
Mary Joan Karanja, Lilly M Nyagah, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: The lack of adequate documentation of deaths, and particularly their cause, is often noted in African and Asian settings, but practical solutions for addressing the problem are not always clear.
Hagos Godefay, Atakelti Abrha, John Kinsman, Anna Myléus, Peter Byass   +4 more
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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2015
Background: Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause ...
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Edward Fottrell, Max Petzold, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Verbal autopsy is a pragmatic approach for generating cause-of-death data in contexts without well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems.
Alex Hinga, Vicki Marsh, Amek Nyaguara, Marylene Wamukoya, Sassy Molyneux   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Causes of death through verbal autopsy: findings from a sub-study of single dose oral cholera vaccination in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2022
# Background Verbal autopsy can play a key crucial to identify significant causes of death in a developing country like Bangladesh where post-death pathological or forensic examination is not common.
Md. Taufiqul Islam, Md. Mazharul I. Zion, Md. Arifuzzaman Khan, Zahid H. Khan, Faisal Ahmmed, Shamim Ahmed, Azimuddin Ahmed, Afroza Akter, Fahima Chowdhury, Amit Saha, Nirod C. Saha, Deok R. Kim, Jean-Louis Excler, Julia Lynch, John D. Clemens, Firdausi Qadri, Ashraful I. Khan   +16 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane, Sholah Imari, Qomariah Alwi, I Nyoman Kandun, Alex R Cook, Gina Samaan   +5 more
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Effects of recall time on cause-of-death findings using verbal autopsy: empirical evidence from rural South Africa

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2016
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used technique for assigning causes to non-medically certified deaths using information gathered from a close caregiver. Both operational and cultural factors may cause delays in follow-up of deaths.
Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Max Petzold, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validation of verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of stillbirth. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
OBJECTIVE:To assess performance of the WHO revised verbal autopsy tool for ascertaining the causes of still birth in comparison with reference standard cause of death ascertained by standardized clinical and supportive data.
Sidrah Nausheen, Sajid B Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Atif Habib, Ali Turab, Zahid Memon, M Imran Khan, Zamir Suhag, Zaid Bhatti, Imran Ahmed, Rajiv Bahl, Shireen Bhutta, Zulfiqar A Bhutta   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strengthening causes of death identification through community-based verbal autopsy during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Public Health, 2022
Introduction Indonesia has not optimally provided complete and reliable civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS). Death certification is one of the elements of the CRVS system. Reliable data on death rates and causes serve as the basis for building
Kemal Nazarudin Siregar, Rico Kurniawan, Dion Zein Nuridzin, Ryza Jazid BaharuddinNur, Retnowati, Yolanda Handayani, Rohjayanti, Lindawati Halim   +7 more
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Using verbal autopsy to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among deaths in the ART period in rural Uganda: a prospective cohort study, 2006-2008

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Verbal autopsy is important for detecting causes of death including HIV in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Before antiretroviral therapy (ART) introduction, a verbal autopsy study in rural Uganda found that half of adult ...
Mugisha Joseph O, Kibengo Freddie M, Nalweyiso Norah, Baisley Kathy, Mayanja Billy N, Van der Paal Lieve, Maher Dermot, Kaleebu Pontiano   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source