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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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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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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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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 for Neurological Diseases [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Verbal autopsy is an interview-based technique to determine the cause distribution of death in a population. The use of verbal autopsy for understanding neurological diseases is crucial to burden of disease analyses in many countries, particularly in locations where civil registration systems are non-functioning or absent.
Farrah J, Mateen, Henry D, Kalter
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Verbal Autopsy: Methods in Transition [PDF]
Epidemiologic Reviews, 2010 Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths worldwide being assigned a cause, this long-standing dearth of information, almost exclusively in the world's poorest countries, hinders understanding of population health and limits ...
Edward, Fottrell, Peter, Byass
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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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The openVA Toolkit for Verbal Autopsies
The R Journal, 2023 Verbal autopsy (VA) is a survey-based tool widely used to infer cause of death (COD) in regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems. In such settings, many deaths happen outside of medical facilities and are not officially documented by a medical professional.
Li, Zehang Richard +4 more
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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies. [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006 The idea of assessing causes of death by retrospective interview is as old as medical statistics. In 17th century London, so-called death searchers visited the houses of people who had died to make enquiries about the death, especially about communicable diseases. In the 19th century, modern systems of death registration saw the end of this practice in
/Garenne, Michel, Fauveau, V.
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