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Verbal Autopsy Standards - Ascertaining and Attributing Cause of Death

By World Health Organization

Book information

Publisher
World Health Organization
Year
2007
ISBN
9789240682641, 9789241547215, 9241547219
Open Library ID
OL17636031M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
801 kB (819936 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
119\119
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The purpose of this manual is to disseminate new standard data collection and cause-of-death assignment resources for verbal autopsy, and to provide some general guidelines for their use. The manual includes verbal autopsy questionnaires for three age groups, cause-of-death certification and coding guidelines for applying the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD-10) to verbal autopsy and a cause-of-death list for verbal autopsy with corresponding ICD-10 codes. These resources are the consensus products of a three-year effort by an expert group led by WHO, consisting of researchers, data users, and other stakeholders under the sponsorship of the Health Metrics Network. They are intended to serve the needs of various users and producers of mortality information, including researchers, policy-makers, programme managers, and evaluators.

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