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Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased.
Adjei, A, Alam, N, Ansah, P, Bagagnan, CH, Bangha, M, Bauni, E, Bhuiya, A, Bonfoh, B, Byass, P, Chuc, NT, Crampin, A, Debpuur, C, Delaunay, V, Diallo, A, Douillot, L, Ezeh, A, Gomez, P, Gyapong, M, Gómez-Olivé, FX, Haile, F, Hanifi, SM, Herbst, K, Jasseh, M, Juvekar, S, Kahn, K, Kant, S, Khan, WA, Kone, S, Kyobutungi, C, Lankoandé, B, Laserson, KF, Lele, P, Melaku, YA, Misra, P, Mochamah, G, Mossong, J, Ndila, C, Ngoran, EK, Nyaguara, A, Nyirenda, M, Odhiambo, FO, Oduro, A, Oti, S, Phillips-Howard, P, Price, A, Rai, SK, Rossier, C, Sankoh, OA, Sarpong, D, Sié, A, Sokhna, C, Soura, AB, Streatfield, PK, Tollman, SM, Utzinger, J, Wak, G, Weldearegawi, B, Williams, TN, Zabré, P   +58 more
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Birth attendants as perinatal verbal autopsy respondents in low-and middle-income countries: a viable alternative?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the feasibility of using birth attendants instead of bereaved mothers as perinatal verbal autopsy respondents. METHODS: Verbal autopsy interviews for early neonatal deaths and stillbirths were conducted separately among mothers ...
C Engmann, A Garces, I Jehan, J Ditekemena, M Phiri, V Thorsten, M Mazariegos, E Chomba, O Pasha, A Tshefu, D Wallace, EM McClure, RL Goldenberg, WA Carlo, LL Wright, C Bose   +15 more
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Modeling maternal mortality in Bangladesh: the role of misoprostol in postpartum hemorrhage prevention. [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundBangladesh is one of the few countries that may actually achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in time, despite skilled birth attendance remaining low.
Bell, Suzanne, Prata, Ndola, Quaiyum, Md Abdul   +2 more
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Autopsi Verbal pada Kasus Kematian Mendadak di Instalasi Kedokteran Forensik RSUD Dr. Soetomo pada 1 November 2017 - 30 November 2017

Qanun Medika: Jurnal Kedokteran Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya, 2018
ABSTRAK Kematian mendadak biasanya terjadi pada orang-orang yang merasa sehat dan tidak memiliki keluhan sebelumnya. Sebab kematian pada kasus kematian mendadak perlu dikonfirmasi oleh dokter secara legal pada surat keterangan kematian.
Ambarini Isa Pratiwi
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the performance of interpreting Verbal Autopsy 3.2 model for establishing pulmonary tuberculosis as a cause of death in Ethiopia: a population-based cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background In resource- poor settings, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death. But in addition to being time and energy consuming, the method is liable to produce inconsistent results.
Tadesse Sebsibe, Tadesse Takele
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Use of Smartphone for Verbal Autopsy.

Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 2016
Traditionally, verbal autopsies (VA) are collected on paper-based questionnaires and reviewed by physicians for cause of death assignment, it is resource intensive and time consuming. The Population Health Metrics Research Consortium VA questionnaires was made available on an Android-based application and cause of death was derived using the Tariff ...
Zhao, Y, Joshi, R, Rampatige, R, Sun, J, Huang, L, Chen, S, Wu, R, Neal, B, Lopez, AD, Stewart, AL, Serina, PT, Li, C, Zhang, J, Zhang, J, Zhang, Y, Yan, LL   +15 more
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Identifying HIV care continuum gaps with verbal autopsy

The Lancet HIV, 2018
CONTEXT: Law enforcement has been the primary strategy for addressing the opioid epidemic. As a result the incarceration rate for women in county jails has increased more than 800% since 1980 and most women inmates struggle with substance use disorders. There is a large unmet need for contraception among women in county jails.
Charfudin Sacoor, Prabhat Jha, Isaac I. Bogoch, Isaac I. Bogoch, Raquel González, Nico J. D. Nagelkerke, Rosauro Varo, Quique Bassat, Denise Naniche, Mireille Gomes, Laura Fuente-Soro   +10 more
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Risk Factors for Injury Mortality in Rural Tanzania: A Secondary Data Analysis. [PDF]

, 2012
\ud \ud Injuries rank high among the leading causes of death and disability annually, injuring over 50 million and killing over 5 million people globally. Approximately 90% of these deaths occur in developing countries.
Ae-Ngibise, Kenneth Ayuurebobi, Kellerman, Ronel, Masanja, Honorati, Owusu-Agyei, Seth   +3 more
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How much does a verbal autopsy based mortality surveillance system cost in rural India?

PLoS ONE, 2015
ObjectiveThis paper aims to determine the cost of establishing and sustaining a verbal-autopsy based mortality surveillance system in rural India.Materials and methodsDeaths occurring in 45 villages (population 185,629) were documented over a 4-year ...
Rohina Joshi, Deversetty Praveen, Stephen Jan, Krishnam Raju, Pallab Maulik, Vivekanand Jha, Alan D Lopez   +6 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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