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 …

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 …

Estimation of cause of death is more difficult in developing countries because neither health-
facility-based information systems nor vital registration provides adequate data on the cause …

Cause-of-death data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) are increasingly used for health
planning, priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in countries with incomplete or no vital …

Understanding of global health and changing morbidity and mortality is limited by
inadequate measurement of population health. With fewer than one-third of deaths …

Background: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to
inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress …

Half of the world's deaths and their causes pass unrecorded by routine registration systems,
particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) collects information on …

Abstract Background Verbal Autopsy (VA) is widely viewed as the only immediate strategy
for registering cause of death in much of Africa and Asia, where routine physician …

Objective Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death
(CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in …