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- 1From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Samath D Dharmaratne (corresponding author) [1]; Rajitha L Jayasuriya [1]; Buddhipani Y Perera [2]; EM Gunesekera [2]; A Sathasivayyar [2] Commentary Analyses of cause of death (COD) statistics are...
- 2From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Trends in the causes of child mortality serve as important global health information to guide efforts to improve child survival. With child mortality declining in Bangladesh, the distribution of causes of...
- 3From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Verbal autopsies provide valuable information for studying mortality patterns in populations that lack reliable vital registration data. Methods for transforming verbal autopsy results into meaningful...
- 4From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Mortality from cardiovascular and other chronic diseases has increased in Iran. Our aim was to estimate the effects of smoking and high systolic blood pressure (SBP), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), total...
- 5From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground The high prevalence of chronic diseases in Western countries implies that the presence of multiple chronic diseases within one person is common. Especially at older ages, when the likelihood of having a...
- 6From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground High-quality, cause-specific mortality data are critical for effective health policy. Yet vague cause of death codes, such as heart failure, are highly prevalent in global mortality data. We propose an...
- 7From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Verbal autopsy (VA) has often been used for point estimates of cause-specific mortality, but seldom to characterize long-term changes in epidemic patterns. Monitoring emerging causes of death involves...
- 8From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed
Synergism of verbal autopsy and diagnostic pathology autopsy for improved accuracy of mortality data
Authors: Corinne L Fligner (corresponding author) [1]; Jill Murray [2]; Drucilla J Roberts [3] Commentary This series provides an important opportunity to consider how diagnostic pathology autopsy could be used in... - 9From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Through application of the verbal autopsy (VA) approach, trained fieldworkers collect information about the probable cause of death (COD) by using a standardized questionnaire to interview family members...
- 10From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground The analysis describes trends in the levels and social distribution of total life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in South Australia from 1999 to 2008. Methods South Australian Burden of...
- 11From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Death rates in military populations outside of combat are often lower than those in the general population. This study considers how this "healthy soldier effect" changes over time. Methods...
- 12From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Carla AbouZahr (corresponding author) [1] Commentary Verbal autopsy has long been used to generate mortality data, often with the needs of specific programs, such as child and maternal mortality, in mind...
- 13From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Public health surveillance is often concerned with the analysis of health outcomes over small areas. Funnel plots have been proposed as a useful tool for assessing and visualizing surveillance data, but...
- 14From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Verbal autopsy (VA) is a widely used tool to assign probable cause of death in areas with inadequate vital registration systems. Its uses in priority setting and health planning are well documented in...
- 15From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) is a promising alternative to the standard approach of physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA), because of its high speed, low cost, and reliability. This study...
- 16From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Monitoring the time course of mortality by cause is a key public health issue. However, several mortality data production changes may affect cause-specific time trends, thus altering the interpretation. This...
- 17From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Daniel Chandramohan (corresponding author) [1] Commentary Methods for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) that have been validated fall into two major categories: (1) physician-certified verbal autopsy...
- 18From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground The spatial modeling of infectious disease distributions and dynamics is increasingly being undertaken for health services planning and disease control monitoring, implementation, and evaluation. Where...
- 19From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Physician review of a verbal autopsy (VA) and completion of a death certificate remains the most widely used approach for VA analysis. This study provides new evidence about the performance of...
- 20From: Population Health Metrics. (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Christopher JL Murray (corresponding author) [1]; Alan D Lopez [2]; Kenji Shibuya [3]; Rafael Lozano [1] Editorial Critical information on population health is needed to inform planning, resource...