Monitoring progress in reducing maternal mortality using verbal autopsy methods in vital registration systems: what can we conclude about specific causes of maternal death?

Abstract Reducing maternal mortality is a key focus of development strategies and one of the indicators used to measure progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In the absence of medical certification of the cause of deaths that occur in the community, verbal autopsy (VA) method...

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Main Authors: Ian D. Riley, Riley H. Hazard, Rohina Joshi, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-019-1343-4