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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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Validation of physician certified verbal autopsy using conventional autopsy: a large study of adult non-external causes of death in a metropolitan area in Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among ...
C. D. D. de André, A. Bierrenbach, L. P. Barroso, Paulo A. de André, L. Justo, L. Pereira, Mauro T. Taniguchi, C. M. Minto, P. L. Takecian, L. T. Kamaura, J. E. Ferreira, R. Hazard, Deirdre McLaughlin, I. Riley, Alan D. Lopez, A. Ramos, Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza, Elizabeth França, P. Saldiva, L. F. D. da Silva   +19 more
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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, Ruthbetha Kateule, James Chambua, Mahadia Tunga   +3 more
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Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy

Global Health Action, 2021
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA).
D. Chandramohan, E. Fottrell, Jordana Leitão, E. Nichols, S. Clark, Carine Alsokhn, D. Cobos Muñoz, C. AbouZahr, Aurelio Di Pasquale, R. Mswia, Eungang Choi, F. Baiden, Jason Thomas, Isaac Lyatuu, Z. Li, Patrick Larbi-Debrah, Yue Chu, Samuel Cheburet, O. Sankoh, Azza Mohamed Badr, Doris Ma Fat, P. Setel, Robert Jakob, D. de Savigny   +23 more
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Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Introduction The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other health goals requires accurate and timely all-cause and cause of death (COD) data.
T. Adair, S. Firth, Tint Pa Pa Phyo, Khin Sandar Bo, Alan D. Lopez   +4 more
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Application of verbal autopsy in routine civil registration in Lusaka District of Zambia

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Ascertaining the causes for deaths occurring outside health facilities is a significant problem in many developing countries where civil registration systems are not well developed or non-functional.
C. Mapoma, Brian Munkombwe, Chomba Mwango, B. Bwalya, A. Kalindi, N. P. Gona   +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, Berhane, Yemane, Davey, Gail, Tensou, Biruk   +3 more
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Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh: introduction of automated verbal autopsy

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background In Bangladesh, a poorly functioning national system of registering deaths and determining their causes leaves the country without important information on which to inform health programming, particularly for the 85% of deaths that occur in the
Md Toufiq Hassan Shawon, S. Ashrafi, A. Azad, S. Firth, H. Chowdhury, R. Mswia, T. Adair, I. Riley, C. AbouZahr, Alan D. Lopez   +9 more
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Verbal autopsy: who needs it? [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary Verbal autopsy has long been used to generate mortality data, often with the needs of specific programs, such as child and maternal mortality, in mind [1,2]. This led to a proliferation of instruments and the resulting data were rarely comparable across research sites or over time [3].
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Burden, timing and causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Protocol for a prospective cohort study [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI mortality study aims to use harmonized methods, across eleven sites in eight countries in South Asia and sub–Saharan Africa, to estimate the burden, timing and causes of maternal, fetal and neonatal deaths. It will generate data to
Abdul Quaiyum, Mohammad, AMANHI study group, Kalonji, Michel, Ngaima, Seige, Nguwo, Andre, Otomba, John, Tshefu, Antoinette   +6 more
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