Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy
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Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy.
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BACKGROUND Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. However, less than one-third of deaths worldwide are assigned a cause. Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries are failing to pr...
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BACKGROUND Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high-quality medical death registration. Verbal autopsies -- survey interviews with the caretakers of imminent decedents -- stand in for medical examinations or physical autopsies, which are infeasible or culturally prohibited. METHODS AND FINDINGS ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Global Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2214-109X
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(14)70340-7