Can a Village Headman Use an Electronic Village Register and a Simplified Community-Based Verbal Autopsy Tool to Record Numbers and Causes of Death in Rural Malawi?

• Main Authors: Chimango V. T. Munthali (Author), Sophie Kang'oma (Author), Khazgani Nasasara (Author), Lindiwe M. Zaina (Author), Chawanangwa Lupafya (Author), Jacob Mziya (Author), Anthony D. Harries (Author), Kudakwashe C. Takarinda (Author), Martha Kwataine (Author), Isaac Dambula (Author), Simeon Yosefe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Most people in Africa die without appearing in official vital statistics records. To improve this situation, Malawi has introduced solar-powered electronic village registers (EVR), managed by village headmen, to record birth and death information for production of vital statistics. The...