BMJ Global Health, 2023 Introduction Causes of deaths often go unrecorded in lower income countries, yet this information is critical. Verbal autopsy is a questionnaire interview with a family member or caregiver to elicit the symptoms and circumstances preceding a death and ...
Shaun K Morris +23 more
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The contribution of reduction in malaria as a cause of rapid decline of under-five mortality : evidence from the Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in rural Tanzania [PDF]
, 2014 Under-five mortality has been declining rapidly in a number of sub-Saharan African settings. Malaria-related mortality is known to be a major component of childhood causes of death and malaria remains a major focus of health interventions.
Honorati Masanja +18 more
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Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Chifundo Kanjala +17 more
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Disease classifications and corresponding verbal autopsy codes.
, 2023 Disease classifications and corresponding verbal autopsy codes.
Alemayehu Worku (317616) +2 more
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The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: results from a demographic surveillance system. [PDF]
, 2008 BACKGROUND: With increasing urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa and poor economic performance, the growth of slums is unavoidable. About 71% of urban residents in Kenya live in slums. Slums are characteristically unplanned, underserved by social services,
Kyobutungi, Catherine +11 more
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Social autopsy for identifying causes of adult mortality. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Verbal autopsy methods have been developed to determine medical causes of deathforprioritizing disease control programs. Additional information on social causesmay facilitate designing of more appropriate prevention strategies.
Mamta Gupta +6 more
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Verbal autopsies for assessing causes of adult death: development and validation of a model tool [PDF]
Data on adult mortality are very limited in sub-Saharan Africa where only small proportions of deaths occur in health facilities. In such settings, ascertainment of causes of death from data obtained from relatives or associates of the deceased through ...
Chandramohan, Daniel
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Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Background Because of a physician shortage in many low-income countries, the use of nonphysicians to classify perinatal mortality (stillbirth and early neonatal death) using verbal autopsy could be useful.
Wallace Dennis +15 more
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Validating the InterVA model to estimate the burden of mortality from verbal autopsy data: a population-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: In countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death.
Sebsibe Tadesse
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A semantically annotated corpus for automatic verbal autopsy analysis
, 2013 This paper presents a method employed in building a semantically annotated corpus of 11,741 Verbal Autopsy documents, each annotated with Cause of Death, based on verbal records of deaths of mothers, stillbirths, and infants up to 1 year of age, captured
Johnson, O. +14 more
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