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Use of verbal autopsy and social autopsy in humanitarian crises [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 IntroductionTwo 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 +2 more
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Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy
The Lancet Global Health, 2014 Osman Sankoh, Peter Byass
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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 ...
Peter Byass, Edward Fottrell
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Verbal autopsy models in determining causes of death [PDF]
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2021 AbstractObjectivesTo systematically review current practices, strengths and limitations of existing VA approaches to increase understanding of health system stakeholders and researchers.MethodsThe review was conducted and reported based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, in which articles ...
Juma H. Lungo +3 more
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Causes of mortality for Indonesian Hajj Pilgrims: comparison between routine death certificate and verbal autopsy findings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Indonesia provides the largest single source of pilgrims for the Hajj (10%). In the last two decades, mortality rates for Indonesian pilgrims ranged between 200-380 deaths per 100,000 pilgrims over the 10-week Hajj period.
Masdalina Pane +5 more
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Accuracy of physicians in diagnosing HIV and AIDS-related death in the adult population of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The lack of cause of death information is the main challenge in monitoring the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HIV and AIDS-related deaths in countries where the majority of deaths occur at home.
Araya, Tekebash +3 more
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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
Kemal Nazarudin Siregar +7 more
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Evaluation of methods for assigning causes of death from verbal autopsies in India
Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 BackgroundPhysician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (COD) in countries where medical certification of death is low.
Sudhir K. Benara +9 more
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Indian Pediatrics, 2021 To identify medical and non-medical factors associated with young infant deaths using verbal autopsies and to evaluate the validity of state verbal autopsy tool in identifying medical causes.Descriptive study to report factors associated with young infant deaths, and diagnostic accuracy study of the verbal autopsy tool.Prematurity related illnesses ...
J Kumutha +2 more
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Pathogens, 2023 Background: Accurate mortality data associated with infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are often unavailable in countries with fragile health systems such as Somalia. We compared officially reported COVID-19 deaths in Somalia
Tahlil Abdi Afrah +10 more
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