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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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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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Feasibility and Efficacy of Culturally Tailored Parenting Programme Delivered In‐Person vs. Zoom for Korean Americans: Towards Equitable Child Development

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First‐generation Korean Americans face parenting challenges due to language and cultural differences, impacting children's development. We evaluated the culturally tailored Ottuki Parenting Program, comparing its efficacy in‐person versus via Zoom.
Sou Hyun Jang, Jaeeun Lee, Eunjung Kim, Rachel Lee, Younghee Cho, Claire Jungyoun Han, Joon Ho Yu, Sangho Kim, Jun Rim Park, Young Oak Choi, Jung‐A Chu, Sook Kyung Park   +11 more
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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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A Comparative User Study on Control‐Flow Visualizations of Event Log Data

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
This paper compares seven commonly used control‐flow visualizations using a formal user study with 48 participants. Directly‐Follows Graphs (DFGs), Petri nets, Business Process Model and Notations, Process trees, variant timelines, Icicle plots, and Sankey visualizations are evaluated on their performance on different tasks, understandability, and user
S. van der Linden, M. C. Willemsen, M. D. Brunings, A. Vilanova, S. van den Elzen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Death after discharge among children living with HIV admitted with suspected sepsis in Uganda: A secondary analysis of two prospective observational studies

HIV Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Children living with HIV in low‐income countries contribute disproportionately to death after hospital discharge. This study investigates the effect of HIV on post‐discharge mortality and readmission by exploring a wide range of clinical, maternal and socioeconomic variables.
O. Mackenzie, C. Zhang, N. Kissoon, N. Ford, N. Sugandhi, E. Kumbakumba, J. Kabakyenga, C. Komugisha, N. K. Mugisha, M. O. Wiens   +9 more
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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
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A scoping review of the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of opt‐out blood‐borne virus (BBV) testing in secondary healthcare settings, in the UK and similar settings, using APEASE criteria

HIV Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Earlier diagnosis of blood‐borne viruses (BBVs)—HIV, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV)—remains a significant public‐health focus. Opt‐out testing in secondary healthcare settings can improve early diagnosis and linkage to care as part of BBV transmission elimination targets.
Becky Metcalfe, Karen J. Maxwell, Kirsten Trayner, Max Wilkinson, Sharon Hutchinson, Claudia Estcourt, Alison J. Rodger   +6 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