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Verbal autopsy analysis of maternal mortality in Bong County, Liberia: a retrospective mixed methods study

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Background While the medical contributors to maternal mortality are well known, the contextual contributors are less known and understudied. Liberia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, with recent increases in maternal ...
Haeun Lee, J. Perosky, Madison Horton, Christopher W. Reynolds, A. Nyanplu, J. Lori   +5 more
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Verbal Autopsy for Neurological Diseases [PDF]

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012
Verbal autopsy is an interview-based technique to determine the cause distribution of death in a population. The use of verbal autopsy for understanding neurological diseases is crucial to burden of disease analyses in many countries, particularly in locations where civil registration systems are non-functioning or absent.
Farrah J, Mateen, Henry D, Kalter
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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, Terence L van Zyl, D. Kar   +2 more
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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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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, Terence L van Zyl, Alisha N. Wade, D. Kar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Causes of deaths in neonates and children aged 1–59 months in Nigeria: verbal autopsy findings of 2019 Verbal and Social Autopsy study

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, J. Quinley, George I. E. Eluwa, Michael O N Kunnuji, R. Wammanda, W. Weiss, Femi James, M. Bello, Adenike Ogunlewe, Rebekah King, A. Franca-Koh   +10 more
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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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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 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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