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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Autores principales: Aborigo, Raymond A., Allotey, Pascale, Tindana, Paulina, Azongo, Daniel, Debpuur, Cornelius
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24054087
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.18570

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24054087
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.18570

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