A systematic review and synthesis of the strengths and limitations of measuring malaria mortality through verbal autopsy

BACKGROUND: Lack of valid and reliable data on malaria deaths continues to be a problem that plagues the global health community. To address this gap, the verbal autopsy (VA) method was developed to ascertain cause of death at the population level. Despite the adoption and wide use of VA, there are...

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Autores principales: Herrera, Samantha, Enuameh, Yeetey, Adjei, George, Ae-Ngibise, Kenneth Ayuurebobi, Asante, Kwaku Poku, Sankoh, Osman, Owusu-Agyei, Seth, Yé, Yazoume
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29058621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2071-x