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

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

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 research...

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Main Authors: Lucia D’Ambruoso, Jessica Price, Eilidh Cowan, Gerhard Goosen, Edward Fottrell, Kobus Herbst, Maria van der Merwe, Jerry Sigudla, Justine Davies, Kathleen Kahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-10-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
causes of death
circumstances of mortality
verbal autopsy
south africa
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.2000091

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