Causes of stillbirth, neonatal death and early childhood death in rural Zambia by verbal autopsy assessments
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Background Understanding how lay people perceive the causes of mortality and their associated risk factors is important for public health. In resource-limited settings, where verbal autopsy (VA) is used as the most expedient method of determining cause of death, it is important to understand how pre-existing concepts of cause of death among VA-informants may influence their VA-responses and the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02776.x