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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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Analysis of Young Infant Deaths Using Verbal Autopsies and Accuracy of Verbal Autopsy Tool in Chennai, India

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 ...
R Usha, Devi, S Mangala, Bharathi, J, Kumutha   +2 more
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Collecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets

Population Health Metrics, 2018
Background There is increasing interest in using verbal autopsy to produce nationally representative population-level estimates of causes of death. However, the burden of processing a large quantity of surveys collected with paper and pencil has been a ...
Abraham D. Flaxman, Andrea Stewart, Jonathan C. Joseph, Nurul Alam, Sayed Saidul Alam, Hafizur Chowdhury, Meghan D. Mooney, Rasika Rampatige, Hazel Remolador, Diozele Sanvictores, Peter T. Serina, Peter Kim Streatfield, Veronica Tallo, Christopher J. L. Murray, Bernardo Hernandez, Alan D. Lopez, Ian Douglas Riley   +16 more
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Use of Smartphone for Verbal Autopsy.

Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2016
Traditionally, verbal autopsies (VA) are collected on paper-based questionnaires and reviewed by physicians for cause of death assignment, it is resource intensive and time consuming. The Population Health Metrics Research Consortium VA questionnaires was made available on an Android-based application and cause of death was derived using the Tariff ...
Zhao, Y, Joshi, R, Rampatige, R, Sun, J, Huang, L, Chen, S, Wu, R, Neal, B, Lopez, AD, Stewart, AL, Serina, PT, Li, C, Zhang, J, Zhang, J, Zhang, Y, Yan, LL   +15 more
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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 ...
McCormick, Tyler H, Li, Zehang Richard, Calvert, Clara, Crampin, Amelia C, Kahn, Kathleen, Clark, Samuel J   +5 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.
Ross M. Boyce, Raquel Reyes
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Women can bear a bigger burden: ante- and post-mortem evidence for reserve in the face of tau. [PDF]

, 2020
In this study, we aimed to assess whether women are able to withstand more tau before exhibiting verbal memory impairment. Using data from 121 amyloid-β-positive Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative participants, we fit a linear model with Rey ...
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Banks, Sarah J, Brewer, James B, Digma, Leonardino A, Jacobs, Diane M, Madsen, John R, Rissman, Robert A   +6 more
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Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site [PDF]

, 2017
Financial disclosure Funding: The research presented in this paper is funded by a Development Grant as part of the Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust ...
Byass, Peter, D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Kahn, Kathleen, Ngobeni, Sizzy, Spies, Barry, Tollman, Stephen, Twine, Rhian, Van Der Merwe, Maria, Wagner, Ryan G, Wariri, Oghenebrume   +9 more
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Solid fuel use and cooking practices as a major risk factor for ALRI mortality among African children [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Almost half of global child deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where three-quarters of the population cook with solid fuels.
Best, N., Briggs, D. J., Joffe, M., Rehfuess, Eva Annette, Tzala, L.   +4 more
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Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Abdulazeez Opeyemi Abdulganiyu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source