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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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Verbal Autopsy as a Tool for Defining Causes of Death in Specific Healthcare Contexts: Study of Applicability through a Traditional Literature Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Autopsy examination, the gold standard for defining causes of death, is often difficult to apply in certain health care settings, especially in developing countries.
P. Bailo, Filippo Gibelli, G. Ricci, A. Sirignano   +3 more
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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
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Causes of death through verbal autopsy: findings from a sub-study of single dose oral cholera vaccination in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2022
# Background Verbal autopsy can play a key crucial to identify significant causes of death in a developing country like Bangladesh where post-death pathological or forensic examination is not common.
Md. Taufiqul Islam, Md. Mazharul I. Zion, Md. Arifuzzaman Khan, Zahid H. Khan, Faisal Ahmmed, Shamim Ahmed, Azimuddin Ahmed, Afroza Akter, Fahima Chowdhury, Amit Saha, Nirod C. Saha, Deok R. Kim, Jean-Louis Excler, Julia Lynch, John D. Clemens, Firdausi Qadri, Ashraful I. Khan   +16 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

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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Are all tuberculosis deaths correctly attributed due to tuberculosis? Analysis of causes of death (COD) using verbal autopsy: A cross-sectional study in Puducherry [PDF]

J Family Med Prim Care
Mohan R, Rajalakshmi M, Kalaiselvan G.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy

The Lancet Global Health, 2014
Osman Sankoh, Peter Byass
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Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016
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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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, Sholah Imari, Qomariah Alwi, I Nyoman Kandun, Alex R Cook, Gina Samaan   +5 more
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