Introduction Estimates suggest that one in two deaths go unrecorded globally every year in
terms of medical causes, with the majority occurring in low and middle-income countries …

Background Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death
(CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician …

Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood mortality remains high in low-and
middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children …

Background There is an urgent need to identify tools able to provide reliable information on
the cause of death in low-income regions, since current methods (verbal autopsy, clinical …

Background and Aims Complete diagnostic autopsies (CDA) remain the gold standard in the
determination of cause of death (CoD). However, performing CDAs in developing countries …

Background Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are
fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical …

Background Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes
to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality and cause …

Background Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of
mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this …

Objective Understanding the causes of death is key to tackling the burden of three million
annual neonatal deaths. Resource-poor settings lack effective vital registration systems for …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to
assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper …