Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy

• Main Authors: Daniel Chandramohan (Author), Edward Fottrell (Author), Jordana Leitao (Author), Erin Nichols (Author), Samuel J. Clark (Author), Carine Alsokhn (Author), Daniel Cobos Munoz (Author), Carla AbouZahr (Author), Aurelio Di Pasquale (Author), Robert Mswia (Author), Eungang Choi (Author), Frank Baiden (Author), Jason Thomas (Author), Isaac Lyatuu (Author), Zehang Li (Author), Patrick Larbi-Debrah (Author), Yue Chu (Author), Samuel Cheburet (Author), Osman Sankoh (Author), Azza Mohamed Badr (Author), Doris Ma Fat (Author), Philip Setel (Author), Robert Jakob (Author), Don de Savigny (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA). VA involves an interview of the family or caregivers of the decease...