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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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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

The Leading Causes of Death among Adult Mortality: Data Analysis of Sleman Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Indonesia

Jurnal Info Kesehatan
Determining the cause of death (CoD) is crucial for effective health policy and decision-making, particularly in population health programs. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Verbal Autopsy (VA) tool to ascertain CoD through verbal ...
Abdul Wahab, Citra Indriani, Lutfan Lazuardi, Ningxin Zhu   +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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Verbal autopsy for maternal death.

Bangladesh Medical Research Council bulletin, 2003
This cross sectional study was done in Gopalganj district from September 1997 to August 1998. To ascertain the magnitude and causes of maternal deaths and perinatal and neonatal outcome of the babies. Two hundred five in maternal deaths occurring from 1994 to 1997 were investigated by verbal autopsy. Teenager mothers had more deaths in first pregnancy.
F, Hussain, A B, Bhuiyan, Y A, Haque, M S, Flora   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Eyes on the water: How local mariners can accurately detect a submerged human proxy in shallow nearshore coastal water with modern recreational fish finders

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract It has recently been demonstrated that modern recreational fish finders with high‐frequency (800 kHz) Sidescan transducers can detect submerged human bodies. This ubiquitous technology is widely used on the water and has the potential to be utilized for the rapid detection of submerged decedents in any waterbody.
Britny A. Martlin, Lynne S. Bell
wiley   +1 more source

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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Family engagement on neuroscience units with Post‐covid visiting policies: A retrospective chart review

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Family engagement is crucial for achieving successful outcomes for both patients and hospitals. It supports safe transitions between care settings, providers, and ultimately, as illness progresses. However, in the hospital setting, family engagement is poorly operationalized.
Jennifer Morgan, Jennifer Cahill, Christine Ritchie, Lingling Zhang, Priscilla Gazarian   +4 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source