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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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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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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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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.
D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Boerma, Ties, Byass, Peter, Fottrell, Edward, Herbst, Kobus, Källander, Karin, Mullan, Zoë   +6 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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Development of the Verbal Autopsy Instrument for COVID-19 (VAIC)

Journal of general internal medicine, 2021
Improving accuracy of identification of COVID-19-related deaths is essential to public health surveillance and research. The verbal autopsy, an established strategy involving an interview with a decedent’s caregiver or witness using a semi-structured ...
T. Rosen, M. Safford, M. Sterling, P. Goyal, M. Patterson, Christina Al Malouf, M. Ballin, Tessa del Carmen, Veronica M. LoFaso, B. Raik, Ingrid Custodio, Alyssa Elman, S. Clark, M. Lachs   +13 more
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Longitudinal Relationship Between Pain and Depression in People With Inflammatory Arthritis: A Narrative Review

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
As many patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have chronic pain, understanding how to best assess and manage pain in IA is a priority. Comorbid depression is prevalent in adults with IA, affecting 15% to 39% of people. Although pain and depression are thought to be associated in IA, this concept is largely based on cross‐sectional data.
Natasha Cox, Saeed Farooq, Helen Twohig, Ian C. Scott   +3 more
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Automated verbal autopsy: from research to routine use in civil registration and vital statistics systems

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background The majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have adequate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems to properly support health policy formulation.
R. Hazard, Mahesh P. K. Buddhika, John D. Hart, H. Chowdhury, S. Firth, R. Joshi, F. Avelino, A. Segarra, Deborah Carmina Sarmiento, A. Azad, S. Ashrafi, Khin Sandar Bo, Violoa Kwa, Alan D. Lopez   +13 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