Determining the cause of death through mortality surveillance using verbal autopsy in Karachi, Pakistan. [PDF]
J Glob HealthBackground In Pakistan, cultural and religious beliefs restrict autopsies, limiting their prevalence. Additionally, many deaths occur at home, outside of hospital systems, making cause-of-death (CoD) determination challenging. This study aims to overcome
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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
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Validation of malaria-attributed deaths using verbal autopsy studies: a systematic review. [PDF]
Malar JBackground Malaria contributes substantially to the persistent burden of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate and comprehensive malaria mortality data are crucial to monitor the progress in reducing malaria incidence and mortality. Verbal Autopsy
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Verbal autopsy analysis of childhood deaths in rural Gambia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Background In low-resource settings, it is challenging to ascertain the burden and causes of under-5 mortality as many deaths occur outside health facilities.
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Ascertaining cause of mortality among middle-aged and older persons using computer-coded and expert review verbal autopsies in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2020 Background Verbal autopsy is designed to ascertain causes of death that are not registered or certified. Verbal autopsy has been validated in multiple settings but has not been as widely evaluated for older populations as for younger age groups ...
Yuan S. Zhang +5 more
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Enhancing the value of death registration with verbal autopsy data: a pilot study in the Senegalese urban population in 2019. [PDF]
Arch Public Health, 2023 Background There is no source of data on causes of death in Senegal that covers both community and hospital deaths. Yet the death registration system in the Dakar region is relatively complete (>80%) and could be expanded to provide information on the ...
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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 ...
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Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper medical certification.
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Implementing and scaling verbal autopsies: into the unknown [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2020 Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01520-1.
Ross M. Boyce, R. de los Reyes
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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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