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Verbal autopsy and global mortality statistics: if not now, then when? [PDF]

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary More than a decade ago, the World Health Organization pointed out the degree to which deficits in the production, sharing, and use of critical health information hampered evidence-based health development in countries with the poorest health status [1].
openaire   +4 more sources

Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Financial disclosure Funding: The research presented in this paper is funded by a Development Grant as part of the Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust ...
Byass, Peter   +9 more
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Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection on the Outcome of Treatment and Survival of Tuberculosis Patients in Mwanza, Tanzania. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Little is known about the outcome of tuberculosis (TB) treatment and subsequent survival of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients treated under routine programme conditions in a developing country.
Lefi, M   +5 more
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Clustering with shallow trees

open access: yes, 2009
We propose a new method for hierarchical clustering based on the optimisation of a cost function over trees of limited depth, and we derive a message--passing method that allows to solve it efficiently.
A Braunstein   +7 more
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Computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies: revolution or evolution? [PDF]

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2011
Scientific revolution and the clinico-pathological paradigm In this edition of Population Health Metrics, a series of papers describes new, automated methods for analyzing verbal autopsy questionnaires. Are we witnessing a revolution in the computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies?
openaire   +5 more sources

Maternal mortality in rural Varanasi: Delays, causes, and contributing factors

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Pregnancy and motherhood are natural processes and considered to be full of positive experiences. However, for various reasons many women end up dying during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Kalpana Kumari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural imperatives and the ethics of verbal autopsies in rural Ghana

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2013
Due to a paucity of statistics from vital registration systems in developing countries, the verbal autopsy (VA) approach has been used to obtain cause-specific mortality data by interviewing lay respondents on the signs and symptoms experienced by the deceased prior to death. In societies where the culture of mourning is adhered to, the use of VA could
Raymond Akawire Aborigo   +4 more
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Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

open access: yesPopulation 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
Flaxman Abraham D   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2011
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is an important method for obtaining cause of death information in settings without vital registration and medical certification of causes of death.
Vahdatpour Alireza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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