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 …

Background Verbal autopsy (VA) is a practical method for determining probable causes of
death at the population level in places where systems for medical certification of cause of …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Background Ascertainment of cause for deaths that occur in the absence of medical
attention is a significant problem in many countries, including Thailand, where more than …

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