Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a health surveillance technique used in low and middle-income countries to establish medical causes of death (CODs) for people who die outside hospitals and/or without registration. By virtue of the deaths it investigates, VA is also an opportunity to examine socia...

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Published in:Glob Health Res Policy
Main Authors: D’Ambruoso, Lucia, Kahn, Kathleen, Wagner, Ryan G., Twine, Rhian, Spies, Barry, van der Merwe, Maria, Gómez-Olivé, F. Xavier, Tollman, Stephen, Byass, Peter
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675065/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29202052
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41256-016-0002-y
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