Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh: introduction of automated verbal autopsy

• Main Authors: Md. Toufiq Hassan Shawon (Author), Shah Ali Akbar Ashrafi (Author), Abul Kalam Azad (Author), Sonja M. Firth (Author), Hafizur Chowdhury (Author), Robert G. Mswia (Author), Tim Adair (Author), Ian Riley (Author), Carla Abouzahr (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In Bangladesh, a poorly functioning national system of registering deaths and determining their causes leaves the country without important information on which to inform health programming, particularly for the 85% of deaths that occur in the community. In 2017, an improved deat...