Fottrell, E;
Byass, P;
Ouedraogo, TW;
Tamini, C;
Gbangou, A;
Sombié, I;
Högberg, U;
... Graham, WJ; + view all
(2007)
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies.
Population Health Metrics
, 5
10.1186/1478-7954-5-1.
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Abstract
Substantial reductions in maternal mortality are called for in Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG-5), thus assuming that maternal mortality is measurable. A key difficulty is attributing causes of death for the many women who die unaided in developing countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) can elicit circumstances of death, but data need to be interpreted reliably and consistently to serve as global indicators. Recent developments in probabilistic modelling of VA interpretation are adapted and assessed here for the specific circumstances of pregnancy-related death.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1478-7954-5-1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-5-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2007 Fottrell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1314718 |
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