Cultural imperatives and the ethics of verbal autopsies in rural Ghana
Background: Due to a paucity of statistics from vital registration systems in developing countries, the verbal autopsy (VA) approach has been used to obtain cause-specific mortality data by interviewing lay respondents on the signs and symptoms experienced by the deceased prior to death. In societie...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2013-09-01
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| Series: | Global Health Action |
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| Online Access: | http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/download/18570/pdf_1 |