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The case for verbal autopsy in health systems strengthening [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
This Comment is based on a round-table discussion held at University College London on Oct 17, 2016, funded by a Health Systems Research Initiative grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/N005597/1). We declare no competing interests.
Karin Källander, Karin Källander, Zoë Mullan, Peter Byass, Kobus Herbst, Ties Boerma, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Edward Fottrell   +7 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, Adazu, Kubaje, Binka, Fred N, Diallo, Diadier, Hodgson, Abraham, Ilboudo-Sanogo, Edith, Masanja, Honorati, Nhacolo, Ariel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Smith, Thomas, Thompson, Ricardo   +10 more
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Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics: lessons learnt from five countries

BMJ Global Health, 2021
This paper describes the lessons from scaling up a verbal autopsy (VA) intervention to improve data about causes of death according to a nine-domain framework: governance, design, operations, human resources, financing, infrastructure, logistics ...
S. Firth, John D. Hart, M. Reeve, Hang Li, L. Mikkelsen, Deborah Carmina Sarmiento, Khin Sandar Bo, Viola Kwa, J. Qi, P. Yin, A. Segarra, I. Riley, R. Joshi   +12 more
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Verbal autopsy: advancing science, facilitating application [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Editorial Critical information on population health is needed to inform planning, resource allocation, program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. One of the key descriptors of a population’s health is information about causes of death. Since many countries lack complete vital registration systems with medical certification of deaths, cause of ...
Murray, CJL, Lopez, AD, Shibuya, K, Lozano, R   +3 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, Kasale, Harun, Masanja, Honorati, Mayombana, Charles, Mbuya, Conrad, Minhaj, Abdulatif, Mkilindi, Yahya, Mwageni, Eleuther, Reid, Graham   +8 more
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Accuracy of verbal autopsy, clinical data and minimally invasive autopsy in the evaluation of malaria-specific mortality: an observational study

BMJ Global Health, 2021
Background Global malaria mortality estimates are hindered by the low reliability of the verbal autopsy (VA) and the clinical records, the most common sources of information used to estimate malaria-specific mortality.
N. Rakislova, Dércio Jordão, Mamudo R Ismail, A. Mayor, P. Cístero, L. Marimón, Melania Ferrando, J. Hurtado, Lucilia Lovane, C. Carrilho, C. Lorenzoni, Fabiola Fernandes, T. Nhampossa, A. Cossa, I. Mandomando, M. Navarro, Isaac Casas, K. Munguambe, Maria Maixenchs, L. Quintó, E. Macete, Mikel J. Martínez, R. Snow, Q. Bassat, C. Menéndez, J. Ordi   +25 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, Basia Zaba, Chifundo Kanjala, Clara Calvert, Denna Michael, Emma Slaymaker, Floyd S, Jim Todd, Kirkwood BR, Mark Urassa, Raphael Isingo, World Health Organization   +11 more
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Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

Global Health Action, 2021
Background Recognising that the causes of over half the world’s deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations.
L. D’Ambruoso, J. Price, Eilidh Cowan, G. Goosen, E. Fottrell, K. Herbst, M. van der Merwe, jerry sigudla, J. Davies, K. Kahn   +9 more
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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, Baiden, Doctor, Fienberg, Hosegood, International Working Group for Disease Monitoring and Forecasting, Jahn, Mathers, Roberts, Setel, World Health Organization   +10 more
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Rapid Mortality Surveillance of COVID-19 Using Verbal Autopsy

International Journal of Public Health, 2021
Identifying causes of death, let alone COVID-19-specific mortality, is a challenge in many lowand middle-income countries. Lack of testing and large numbers of community deaths without a physician to medically certify the cause of death, are barriers to ...
A. Duarte-Neto, M. F. Marinho, L. P. Barroso, C. D. Saldiva de André, L. F. D. da Silva, M. Dolhnikoff, Paulo Afonso de André, C. M. Minto, C. S. de Moura, T. F. Leite, Jair Theodoro Filho, R. A. Monteiro, P. Setel, Martin W. Bratschi, R. Mswia, P. Saldiva, A. Bierrenbach   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source