Automated verbal autopsy: from research to routine use in civil registration and vital statistics systems

Automated verbal autopsy: from research to routine use in civil registration and vital statistics systems

Abstract Background The majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have adequate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems to properly support health policy formulation. Verbal autopsy (VA), long used in research, can provide useful information on the cause of death (CO...

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Main Authors: Riley H. Hazard, Mahesh P. K. Buddhika, John D. Hart, Hafizur R. Chowdhury, Sonja Firth, Rohina Joshi, Ferchito Avelino, Agnes Segarra, Deborah Carmina Sarmiento, Abdul Kalam Azad, Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi, Khin Sandar Bo, Violoa Kwa, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Verbal autopsy
Civil registration and vital statistics
Cause of death
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Papua New Guinea
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01520-1

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