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 Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems do not produce
comprehensive data on maternal and child deaths in most low-and middle-income countries …

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 Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved,
causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a …

Background Half of all under-5 deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. Reducing child mortality
requires understanding of the modifiable factors that contribute to death. Social autopsies …

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 …

Objective Injury burden is highest in low-income and middle-income countries. To reduce
avoidable deaths, it is necessary to identify health system deficiencies preventing timely …

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 …

The quest for robust, affordable, consistent methods for filling global health information gaps
is familiar. But frequently the focus is on how the international community can extract …

Background Frontline managers and health service providers are constrained in many
contexts from responding to community priorities due to organizational cultures focused on …