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Verbal autopsy [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 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. In some regions of the world it is the only method available to obtain estimates on the distribution of causes of death.
Soleman, Nadia, Chandramohan, Daniel, Shibuya, Kenji   +2 more
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Causes and age of neonatal death and associations with maternal and newborn care characteristics in Nepal: a verbal autopsy study

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, Johanna B. Lackner, L. Mullany, N. Bhandari, P. Shedain, S. Khanal, J. R. Dhakwa, J. Katz   +7 more
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Potential and limits of verbal autopsies [PDF]

Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 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, Arthur, SS, Awini, E, Bauni, E, Bhuiya, A, Binka, FN, Bonfoh, B, Byass, P, Chaudhary, B, Chuc, NT, Compaoré, Y, Delaunay, V, Diallo, A, Diboulo, E, Douillot, L, Ezeh, A, Gomez, P, Gyapong, M, Gómez-Olivé, FX, Hamel, MJ, Hanifi, SM, Herbst, K, Hodgson, A, Jaeger, F, Jasseh, M, Juvekar, S, Kabudula, CW, Kant, S, Khan, WA, Kyobutungi, C, Lindblade, KA, Mee, P, Melaku, YA, Misra, P, Mochamah, G, Mossong, J, Mulugeta, A, Ndila, C, Ngoran, EK, Odhiambo, FO, Oduro, A, Sankoh, OA, Sié, A, Slutsker, L, Sokhna, C, Soura, AB, Srivastava, R, Streatfield, PK, Tanner, M, Utzinger, J, Wahab, A, Wamukoya, M, Welaga, P, Weldearegawi, B, Williams, J, Williams, TN, Wilopo, S, Yé, M   +57 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.
Raquel Reyes, Ross M. Boyce
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Causes of infant deaths and patterns of associated factors in Eastern Ethiopia: Results of verbal autopsy (InterVA-4) study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background In a range of setting, detecting and generate empirical information on the cause of infant death and contributing risk factors at population level is basically utmost essential to take evidence-based measures in reducing infant morbidity and ...
Samuel Mebrahtom, A. Worku, D. Gage
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tree-informed Bayesian multi-source domain adaptation: cross-population probabilistic cause-of-death assignment using verbal autopsy [PDF]

medRxiv, 2021
Determining causes of deaths (COD) occurred outside of civil registration and vital statistics systems is challenging. A technique called verbal autopsy (VA) is widely adopted to gather information on deaths in practice.
Zhenke Wu, Z. Li, I-Chen Chen, Mengbing Li   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]

BMJ Global Health, 2018
Introduction Two billion people live in countries affected by conflict, violence and fragility. These are exceptional situations in which mortality shifts dramatically and in which civil registration and vital statistics systems are often weakened or cease to function.
Lisa-Marie Thomas, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Dina Balabanova   +2 more
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Conducting verbal autopsy by telephone interview during the pandemic to support mortality surveillance: a feasibility study in Malaysia

Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSAR, 2022
Objective Verbal autopsy (VA) through face-to-face interviews with caregivers is a way to determine cause of death without medical certification. In Malaysia, the use of VA has improved mortality statistics.
N. Nasaruddin, S. Ganapathy, S. Awaluddin, M. Anuar, Nazirah binti Alias, Chan Yee Mang, Khaw Wan-Fei   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014
In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such regions the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the ...
Tyler H. McCormick, Zehang Li, Clara Calvert, Amelia C. Crampin, Kathleen Kahn, Samuel J. Clark   +5 more
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