Refining circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a verbal autopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for public health decision-making

• Main Authors: Lucia D'Ambruoso (Author), Jessica Price (Author), Eilidh Cowan (Author), Gerhard Goosen (Author), Edward Fottrell (Author), Kobus Herbst (Author), Maria van der Merwe (Author), Jerry Sigudla (Author), Justine Davies (Author), Kathleen Kahn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Recognising that the causes of over half the world's deaths pass unrecorded, the World Health Organization (WHO) leads development of Verbal Autopsy (VA): a method to understand causes of death in otherwise unregistered populations. Recently, VA has been developed for use outside res...