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Bayesian Tensor Decomposition for Clustering Latent Symptom Profiles for Verbal Autopsy Data. [PDF]

Stat Med
ABSTRACT Cause‐of‐death data is fundamental for understanding population health trends and inequalities as well as designing and evaluating public health interventions. A significant proportion of global deaths, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), do not have medically certified causes assigned.
Zhu Y, Li ZR.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Identifying HIV care continuum gaps with verbal autopsy

The Lancet HIV, 2018
CONTEXT: Law enforcement has been the primary strategy for addressing the opioid epidemic. As a result the incarceration rate for women in county jails has increased more than 800% since 1980 and most women inmates struggle with substance use disorders. There is a large unmet need for contraception among women in county jails.
Bogoch, Isaac Israel, Gomes, Mireille, Fuente Soro, Laura, Varo, Rosauro, Naniche, Denise, Sacoor, Charfudin N., González, Raquel, Nagelkerke, Nico J.D.D., Bassat, Quique, Jha, Prabhat K.S.   +9 more
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

How much does a verbal autopsy based mortality surveillance system cost in rural India?

PLoS ONE, 2015
ObjectiveThis paper aims to determine the cost of establishing and sustaining a verbal-autopsy based mortality surveillance system in rural India.Materials and methodsDeaths occurring in 45 villages (population 185,629) were documented over a 4-year ...
Rohina Joshi, Deversetty Praveen, Stephen Jan, Krishnam Raju, Pallab Maulik, Vivekanand Jha, Alan D Lopez   +6 more
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A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola. [PDF]

, 2015
The real missing link in Ebola control efforts to date may lie in the failure to apply core principles of health promotion: the early, active and sustained engagement of affected communities, their trusted leaders, networks and lay knowledge, to help ...
Banya, Sama S, Corburn, Jason, Gibson, Nancy, Marais, Frederick, Mehtar, Shaheen, Minkler, Meredith, Mwau, Baraka, Ogunsola, Folasade   +7 more
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Verbal autopsy for maternal death.

Bangladesh Medical Research Council bulletin, 2003
This cross sectional study was done in Gopalganj district from September 1997 to August 1998. To ascertain the magnitude and causes of maternal deaths and perinatal and neonatal outcome of the babies. Two hundred five in maternal deaths occurring from 1994 to 1997 were investigated by verbal autopsy. Teenager mothers had more deaths in first pregnancy.
F, Hussain, A B, Bhuiyan, Y A, Haque, M S, Flora   +3 more
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Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

The Leading Causes of Death among Adult Mortality: Data Analysis of Sleman Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Indonesia

Jurnal Info Kesehatan
Determining the cause of death (CoD) is crucial for effective health policy and decision-making, particularly in population health programs. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to ascertain CoD through verbal ...
Abdul Wahab, Citra Indriani, Lutfan Lazuardi, Ningxin Zhu   +3 more
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Need to validate Verbal Autopsy/Social Autopsy (VASA) integrated tool for developing countries to assign biological and social reasoning of child mortalities.

International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2017
Over the time since 1990, as the world strive for reducing child mortality, there has been a clustering of child mortality estimates in developing countries.
Siddiqui MB, Ng CW, Low WY
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