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 …

Reduction of deaths associated with malaria in children is a primary goal of malaria control
programmes in Africa, but there has been little discussion about how changes in mortality …

Background Modelled mortality estimates have been useful for health programmes in low-
income and middle-income countries. However, these estimates are often based on sparse …

Aim: To examine the hypothesis that circular labour migrants who become seriously ill while
living away from home return to their rural homes to convalesce and possibly to die …

The verbal autopsy (VA) is an epidemiological tool that is widely used to ascribe causes of
death by interviewing bereaved relatives of children who were not under medical …

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

Summary objective To validate the causes of death determined with a single verbal autopsy
instrument covering all age groups in the Agincourt subdistrict of rural South Africa. methods …

Death rates among US black men and women under 75 years of age are higher than for
their white counterparts. The explanation for this excess risk, though attributed to …

Information on cause of death is essential for rational public health planning, yet mortality
data in South Africa is limited. In the Agincourt subdistrict, verbal autopsies (VA) have been …

BACKGROUND: The verbal autopsy (VA) is used to collect information on cause-specific
mortality from bereaved relatives. A cause of death may be assigned by physician review of …