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Verbal autopsy sample selection, Mexico, Hidalgo 2009.

, 2019
Verbal autopsy sample selection, Mexico, Hidalgo 2009.
Bernardo Hernandez (764416), Dolores Ramirez-Villalobos (3475319), Sara Gomez (3475358), Abraham D. Flaxman (243627), Andrea Leigh Stewart (6911618), Minerva Romero (3475322)   +5 more
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Economic feasibility of a new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings. [PDF]

, 2011
INTRODUCTION: Mortality data provide essential evidence on the health status of populations in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings and to guide and assess relief operations. Retrospective surveys are commonly used to collect mortality data in such
Francesco Checchi, Egbert Sondorp, Rwebangila Sunday, Daniel Chandramohan, Sultani, Mohammed Ghaus, Checchi, Francesco, Bayard Roberts, Morgan Oliver W., Oliver W Morgan, Sondorp, Egbert, Sunday Rwebangila, Sondorp Egbert, Morgan, Oliver W, Chandramohan Daniel, Peter Nyasulu, Roberts Bayard, Roberts, Bayard, Oliver W. Morgan, Checchi Francesco, Rwebangila, Sunday, Chandramohan, Daniel, Nyasulu Peter, Sultani Mohammed Ghaus, Nyasulu, Peter, Mohammed Ghaus Sultani   +24 more
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Maternal mortality in rural Varanasi: Delays, causes, and contributing factors

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Pregnancy and motherhood are natural processes and considered to be full of positive experiences. However, for various reasons many women end up dying during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Kalpana Kumari, Ratan Kumar Srivastava, Manushi Srivastava, Neeti Purwar   +3 more
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Need to validate Verbal Autopsy/Social Autopsy (VASA) integrated tool for developing countries to assign biological and social reasoning of child mortalities.

International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2017
Over the time since 1990, as the world strive for reducing child mortality, there has been a clustering of child mortality estimates in developing countries.
Siddiqui MB, Ng CW, Low WY
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When a coal miner dies : the National Coal Workers' Autopsy Study [PDF]

"The definition of, purpose of, and procedure for participation by the family member in the National Coal Workers' Autopsy Study were presented in pamphlet format.

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Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system

Population Health Metrics, 2018
Background Deaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information.
Riley H. Hazard, Nurul Alam, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Tim Adair, Saidul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Ian Douglas Riley, Alan D. Lopez   +7 more
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Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background InterVA is a widely disseminated tool for cause of death attribution using information from verbal autopsies. Several studies have attempted to validate the concordance and accuracy of the tool, but the main limitation of these studies is that
Flaxman Abraham D, Lopez Alan D, Campbell Benjamin, James Spencer L, Freeman Michael K, Lozano Rafael, Murray Christopher JL   +6 more
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Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011.

, 2011
BACKGROUND: India's 2011 census revealed a growing imbalance between the numbers of girls and boys aged 0-6 years, which we postulate is due to increased prenatal sex determination with subsequent selective abortion of female fetuses.
Diego G Bassani, Banthia, Jayant K, Maya A Kesler, Shailaja Chandra, Kesler, Maya A, Faujdar Ram, Jayant K Banthia, Ram, Faujdar, Rajesh Kumar, Ram, Usha, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Aleksandrowicz, Lukasz, Chandra, Shailaja, Bassani, Diego G, Kumar, Rajesh, Prabhat Jha, Usha Ram, Jha, Prabhat   +17 more
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Evaluation of the Implementation of Health Interventions and their Impact on Child Survival in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2006
It is widely accepted that achieving the highest and most equitable levels of health of populations through the most rational use of resources is the ultimate goal of national and international policymakers, public health officials and health ...
Masanja, Honorati Michael
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The etiology of maternal mortality in developing countries: what do verbal autopsies tell us?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To reassess the practical value of verbal autopsy data, which, in the absence of more definitive information, have been used to describe the causes of maternal mortality and to identify priorities in programmes intended to save women's lives ...
Nancy L. Sloan, A. Langer, B. Hernandez, M. Romero, B. Winikoff   +4 more
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