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Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal, and ZimbabweStefania Vergnano
Centre for International Health and Development, UCL, Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford St, London WC1N1EH, UK
Popul Health Metr 9:48. 2011..abstract:..- Implementing a hypertension management programme in a rural area: local approaches and experiences from Ba-Vi district, VietnamQuang Ngoc Nguyen
Department of Cardiology, Hanoi Medical University, 1 Ton That Tung Street, Dong Da District, Hanoi, Vietnam
BMC Public Health 11:325. 2011..This paper aims at summarising our approaches to implementing a programme on hypertension management in a rural commune of Vietnam... - Multilevel analysis of covariation in socioeconomic predictors of physical functioning and psychological well-being among older people in rural VietnamVan Minh Hoang
Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
BMC Geriatr 10:7. 2010.... - Population based prevalence of high blood pressure among adults in Addis Ababa: uncovering a silent epidemicFikru Tesfaye
School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 9:39. 2009..This study aims to describe the epidemiology of high blood pressure among adults in Addis Ababa, so as to inform policy and lay the ground for surveillance interventions... - DSS and DHS: longitudinal and cross-sectional viewpoints on child and adolescent mortality in EthiopiaPeter Byass
Umeå International School of Public Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Popul Health Metr 5:12. 2007..This paper aims to compare DSS and DHS approaches, seeing how they complement each other in the specific instance of child and adolescent mortality in Ethiopia... - From birth to adulthood in rural Ethiopia: the Butajira Birth Cohort of 1987Peter Byass
Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Science, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 22:569-74. 2008..The huge gaps between their experience and that of their contemporaries in more affluent settings are a scandal of the 21st century... - Making sense of long-term changes in malariaPeter Byass
, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, , 90185 Ume, Sweden
Lancet 372:1523-5. 2008 - Assessing the repeatability of verbal autopsy for determining cause of death: two case studies among women of reproductive age in Burkina Faso and IndonesiaPeter Byass
Immpact, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
Popul Health Metr 7:6. 2009.... - Lessons from history for designing and validating epidemiological surveillance in uncounted populationsPeter Byass
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e22897. 2011..Thus these issues can only be explored empirically in a complete individual dataset at national and local levels, relating to a LMIC population profile... - Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt, South Africa: approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findingsPeter Byass
Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Sweden
PLoS Med 7:e1000325. 2010..Here we compare and contrast these approaches as applied to a series of 6,153 deaths which occurred in a rural South African population from 1992 to 2005. We do not attempt to validate either approach in absolute terms... - The democratic fallacy in matters of clinical opinion: implications for analysing cause-of-death dataPeter Byass
Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umeå 90185, Sweden
Emerg Themes Epidemiol 8:1. 2011..Similar considerations may apply in other epidemiological domains... - Motherhood, migration and mortality in Dikgale: modelling life events among women in a rural South African communityP Byass
Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, 90185 Umea, Sweden
Public Health 125:318-23. 2011..Although particular types of life events in populations are often studied separately, this study investigated the joint effects of three major event types in South African women's lives: motherhood, migration and mortality... - The global burden of childhood coeliac disease: a neglected component of diarrhoeal mortality?Peter Byass
Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e22774. 2011..This is the first attempt to make global estimates of the burden of coeliac disease in childhood... - Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: the case of HIV-related mortality in South AfricaPeter Byass
MRC Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit Agincourt, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Popul Health Metr 9:46. 2011..abstract:.. - Who needs cause-of-death data?Peter Byass
, Ume, Sweden
PLoS Med 4:e333. 2007 - Making the world's children countPeter Byass
, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, , Sweden
Lancet 365:1114-6. 2005 - Integrated multisource estimates of mortality for Thailand in 2005Peter Byass
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, Sweden
Popul Health Metr 8:10. 2010..However, difficulties over standardizing verbal autopsy interpretation may mean that there are still some uncertainties in these revised estimates... - Refining a probabilistic model for interpreting verbal autopsy dataPeter Byass
Umeå International School of Public Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 34:26-31. 2006..To build on the previously reported development of a Bayesian probabilistic model for interpreting verbal autopsy (VA) data, attempting to improve the model's performance in determining cause of death and to reassess it... - Demonstrating the robustness of population surveillance data: implications of error rates on demographic and mortality estimatesEdward Fottrell
Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umea University, Sweden
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:13. 2008..Such knowledge is also of particular importance if the outputs of DSSs are to be extrapolated and aggregated with realistic margins of error and validity... - Mortality measurement in transition: proof of principle for standardised multi-country comparisonsEdward Fottrell
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Trop Med Int Health 15:1256-65. 2010..To demonstrate the viability and value of comparing cause-specific mortality across four socioeconomically and culturally diverse settings using a completely standardised approach to VA interpretation... - Patterns of mortality in Bavi, Vietnam, 1999-2001Peter Byass
Umeå International School of Public Health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Scand J Public Health Suppl 62:8-11. 2003..This paper describes detailed mortality findings from a sample drawn from the population of one district of northern Vietnam, over the three-year period 1999-2001... - Verbal autopsy: methods in transitionEdward Fottrell
Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, SE 901 85 Umea, Sweden
Epidemiol Rev 32:38-55. 2010..There is an urgent need for clarified thinking about the overall objectives of population-level cause-of-death measurement and harmonized efforts in empirical methodological research... - Probabilistic methods for verbal autopsy interpretation: InterVA robustness in relation to variations in a priori probabilitiesEdward Fottrell
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e27200. 2011..The extent to which InterVA's ability to characterise a population's mortality composition might be sensitive to variations in these a priori probabilities was investigated... - A probabilistic approach to interpreting verbal autopsies: methodology and preliminary validation in VietnamPeter Byass
Umeå International School of Public Health, Umea, Sweden
Scand J Public Health Suppl 62:32-7. 2003..Other approaches such as algorithms and neural networks have been developed in some settings. This paper aims to develop a method that is simple, reliable and consistent, which could represent an advance in VA interpretation... - Patterns of local migration and their consequences in a rural Ethiopian populationPeter Byass
Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Sweden
Scand J Public Health 31:58-62. 2003.... - Direct data capture using hand-held computers in rural Burkina Faso: experiences, benefits and lessons learntPeter Byass
Immpact, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Trop Med Int Health 13:25-30. 2008.... - The epidemiology of pregnancy outcomes in rural Burkina FasoJacqueline S Bell
Immpact, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Trop Med Int Health 13:31-43. 2008..To describe levels and causes of pregnancy-related mortality and selected outcomes after pregnancy (OAP) in two districts of Burkina Faso... - Maternal death due to postpartum hemorrhage after snakebiteLucia D'Ambruoso
Immpact, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 102:71. 2008..A case of fatal postpartum hemorrhage demonstrates the need for the immediate referral of all pregnant women who incur a snakebite... - 'Maybe it was her fate and maybe she ran out of blood': final caregivers' perspectives on access to care in obstetric emergencies in rural IndonesiaLucia D'Ambruoso
Immpact, Population Health Section, University of Aberdeen, UK
J Biosoc Sci 42:213-41. 2010..Verbal autopsy surveys provide an opportunity to routinely collect information on the exclusory mechanisms of health systems, important information for equitable health planning... - Population survey sampling methods in a rural African setting: measuring mortalityEdward Fottrell
Umeå International School of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Popul Health Metr 6:2. 2008..abstract:.. - Applying verbal autopsy to determine cause of death in rural VietnamDao Lan Huong
Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Ministry of Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
Scand J Public Health Suppl 62:19-25. 2003..Although the validity of the VA method used has not been fully assessed, it appeared to be an appropriate method for ascertaining causes of death in the study area... - Validity and completeness of death reporting and registration in a rural district of VietnamTran Quang Huy
UongBi General Hospital, Uong Bi, Vietnam
Scand J Public Health Suppl 62:12-8. 2003..Assessment was made of the validity of mortality estimates based on data collected during 1999-2000 by quarterly follow-up visits and compared with other methods (re-census, communal death registration, and neighbourhood survey)... - Mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Bavi District, VietnamHoang Van Minh
Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
Scand J Public Health Suppl 62:26-31. 2003..The aims of the study were to outline CVD mortality during health transition in a rural community in the north of Vietnam and to examine associations between CVD mortality and the socioeconomic status of the population... - Helping northern Ethiopian communities reduce childhood mortality: population-based intervention trialMohammed Ali
TDA IMCI Project, PO Box 756, Mekelle, Tigrai, Ethiopia
Bull World Health Organ 83:27-33. 2005..The synergy between community awareness and the availability of effective peripheral health services is also an issue that needs further exploration... - Does poverty lead to non-fatal unintentional injuries in rural Vietnam?Nguyen Xuan Thanh
Department of Health Economics, Faculty of Public Health Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam
Int J Inj Contr Saf Promot 12:31-7. 2005..However, the relationship varied by sex, age and type of injury. Specifically, poverty increased the risk for children and elderly people being injured at home, and for adults (15-59 years) being affected by work injuries... - Women's involvement in household decision-making and strengthening social capital-crucial factors for child survival in EthiopiaMesganaw Fantahun
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 24762, Code 1000 Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Acta Paediatr 96:582-9. 2007..To assess the influence of household decision making, social capital, socio-economic factors and health service use on under-five mortality... - Cardiovascular disease mortality and its association with socioeconomic status: findings from a population-based cohort study in rural Vietnam, 1999-2003Van Minh Hoang
Faculty of Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, No 1, Ton That Tung, Hanoi, Vietnam
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A89. 2006.... - A rural Ethiopian population undergoing epidemiological transition over a generation: Butajira from 1987 to 2004Yemane Berhane
Community Health Department, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Scand J Public Health 36:436-41. 2008..To describe the epidemiological development of a rural Ethiopian population from 1987 to 2004 in terms of mortality and associated sociodemographic factors... - Socio-economic status inequality and major causes of death in adults: a 5-year follow-up study in rural VietnamDao Lan Huong
Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Ministry of Health, 138 Giang Vo Street, Hanoi, Vietnam
Public Health 120:497-504. 2006..This study aimed to analyse the associations between cause-specific mortality in adults (aged 20 years and above) and socio-economic status (SES) in a rural setting of Vietnam during a time of economic transition... - All-cause mortality trends in Dikgale, rural South Africa, 1996-2003Ian Cook
Department of Kinesiology, University of Limpopo Turfloop campus, Sovenga, South Africa
Scand J Public Health 36:753-60. 2008..This paper describes detailed mortality patterns of a rural African population in the central region of Limpopo Province... - Young adult and middle age mortality in Butajira demographic surveillance site, Ethiopia: lifestyle, gender and household economyMesganaw Fantahun
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 24762, Code 1000, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BMC Public Health 8:268. 2008..The aim of this study is to explore patterns of adult (15-64 years) mortality in an Ethiopian population over time, by gender, urban or rural lifestyle, causes of death and in relation to household economic status and decision-making... - Combining risk factors and demographic surveillance: potentials of WHO STEPS and INDEPTH methodologies for assessing epidemiological transitionNawi Ng
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Scand J Public Health 34:199-208. 2006..This paper discusses the potential of combining the WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance (STEPS) within ongoing DSSs, to assess changes in non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors... - Gender, literacy, and survival among Ethiopian adults, 1987 - 96Yemane Berhane
Department of Community Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Bull World Health Organ 80:714-20. 2002..To examine relationships between gender, literacy and survival among adults in Meskan and Mareko district, Ethiopia... - Setting international standards for verbal autopsyFrank Baiden
Bull World Health Organ 85:570-1. 2007