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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023 Objective To conduct a systematic review of verbal autopsy studies in low- and middle-income countries to estimate the fraction of deaths due to cardiovascular disease.
Ajay Acharya +4 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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Improving Cause-of-Death Classification from Verbal Autopsy Reports [PDF]
SACAIR, 2022 . In many lower-and-middle income countries including South Africa, data access in health facilities is restricted due to patient privacy and confidentiality policies.
Thokozile Manaka +2 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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Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate ...
Alam, N +57 more
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Using Machine Learning to Fuse Verbal Autopsy Narratives and Binary Features in the Analysis of Deaths from Hyperglycaemia [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2022 Lower-and-middle income countries are faced with challenges arising from a lack of data on cause of death (COD), which can limit decisions on population health and disease management.
Thokozile Manaka +3 more
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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, Raquel Reyes
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Nigeria has one of the highest under-five mortality rates in the world. Identifying the causes of these deaths is crucial to inform changes in policy documents, design and implementation of appropriate interventions to reduce these deaths.
Adeyinka Odejimi +10 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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Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background In Nepal, neonatal mortality fell substantially between 2000 and 2018, decreasing 50% from 40 to 20 deaths per 1,000 live births. Nepal’s success has been attributed to a decreasing total fertility rate, improvements in female education ...
D. Erchick +7 more
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