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Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Wherever the field of verbal autopsy (VA) may be heading, the exciting and considerable extent of new work presented in this Population Health Metrics series clearly shows that the topic is not withering. The Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy held in Bali in February 2011 undoubtedly marked a significant milestone: VA has come of age as an ...
Byass Peter
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Designing verbal autopsy studies [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2010 Background Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high-quality medical death registration.
Shibuya Kenji, Lu Ying, King Gary
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Literature review of verbal autopsy [PDF]
JKKI (Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan Indonesia), 2020 An sudden death is a case that occurs without prior health complaints, so that its cause cannot be identified. On a death certificate, a doctor needs to state a cause of death, so an autopsy is usually required to confirm the cause of the sudden death ...
Eriliana Aryanti +2 more
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Verbal autopsy: who needs it? [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Verbal autopsy has long been used to generate mortality data, often with the needs of specific programs, such as child and maternal mortality, in mind [1,2]. This led to a proliferation of instruments and the resulting data were rarely comparable across research sites or over time [3].
AbouZahr Carla
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Setting international standards for verbal autopsy [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 In many countries most deaths occur at home. Such countries often have civil registration systems that are limited or non-existent and therefore most deaths go unrecorded. Countries that cannot record the number of people who die or why they die cannot realize the full potential of their health systems.
Frank Baiden +22 more
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Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Editorial Critical information on population health is needed to inform planning, resource allocation, program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. One of the key descriptors of a population’s health is information about causes of death. Since many countries lack complete vital registration systems with medical certification of deaths, cause of ...
Shibuya Kenji +3 more
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Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006 Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems.
Soleman Nadia +2 more
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Validation and validity of verbal autopsy procedures [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary Methods for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) that have been validated fall into two major categories: (1) physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), the commonlyused method in which one or more physicians ascertain causes of death based on their clinical judgment; and (2) computerized coding of verbal autopsy (CCVA), in which causes of death
Chandramohan Daniel
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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 +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 +4 more
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