Civil registration and vital statistics systems capture birth and death events to compile vital
statistics and to provide legal rights to citizens. Vital statistics are a key factor in promoting …

Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of
death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death …

Verbal autopsies (VA) are widely used to provide cause-specific mortality estimates in
developing world settings where vital registration does not function well. VAs assign cause …

Background A verbal autopsy (VA) is a post-hoc written interview report of the symptoms
preceding a person's death in cases where no official cause of death (CoD) was determined …

Verbal autopsy (VA) methods are designed to collect cause-of-death information from
populations where many deaths occur outside of health facilities and where death …

Critical information on population health is needed to inform planning, resource allocation,
program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. One of the key descriptors of a …

Only about one-third of the deaths worldwide are assigned a medically-certified cause, and
understanding the causes of deaths occurring outside of medical facilities is logistically and …

Background Monitoring progress with disease and injury reduction in many populations will
require widespread use of verbal autopsy (VA). Multiple methods have been developed for …

The international standard to ascertain the cause of death is medical certification. However,
in many low and middle-income countries, the majority of deaths occur outside of health …

Background Physician assessment historically has been the most common method of
analyzing verbal autopsy (VA) data. Recently, the World Health Organization endorsed two …