Rates and Causes of Death in Chiradzulu District, Malawi, 2008: A Key Informant Study [PDF]
, 2010 In September 2008, we measured all-cause mortality in Chiradzulu District, Malawi (population 291 000) over a 60-day retrospective period, using capture-recapture analysis of three lists of deaths provided by (i) key community informants, (ii) graveyard ...
Adjuik +10 more
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Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2004 BACKGROUND\ud \ud Once malaria occurs, deaths can be prevented by prompt treatment with relatively affordable and efficacious drugs. Yet this goal is elusive in Africa.
de Savigny, Don +8 more
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Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
, 2007 Understanding of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results into broad age groups and across ...
Abdullah, Salim +10 more
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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 +6 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.
Alison Wringe +11 more
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Advances in verbal autopsy: pragmatic optimism or optimistic theory? [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Commentary In recent decades, verbal autopsy (VA) methods have been increasingly used to identify likely causes of death in settings where the majority of deaths occur without medical attention or certification as to cause [1]. Developments in the 1980s and 1990s advanced the conceptual and methodological aspects of the science considerably but fell ...
Edward Fottrell, Edward Fottrell
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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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Studi Validasi Autopsi Verbal Kematian Bayi [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Infant mortality is a tragedy which cannot be easily forgotten by mothers and their family. Data on mortality from hospital or hospital-based cause of death was not representative.
Siswanto Agus Wilopo, Djauhar Ismail, Ernaningsih
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Verbal autopsy in health policy and systems: a literature review [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2018 IntroductionEstimates suggest that one in two deaths go unrecorded globally every year in terms of medical causes, with the majority occurring in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). This can be related to low investment in civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems.
Lisa-Marie Thomas +2 more
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Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2014 Verbal Autopsy (VA) is widely viewed as the only immediate strategy for registering cause of death in much of Africa and Asia, where routine physician certification of deaths is not widely practiced. VA involves a lay interview with family or friends after a death, to record essential details of the circumstances.
Peter Byass, Peter Byass, Peter Byass
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