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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...
Autores principales: | Aborigo, Raymond A., Allotey, Pascale, Tindana, Paulina, Azongo, Daniel, Debpuur, Cornelius |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Co-Action Publishing
2013
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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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