Causes of death in two rural demographic surveillance sites in Bangladesh, 2004-2010: Automated coding of verbal autopsies using InterVA-4

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Alam, Nurul ^a   Chowdhury, Hafizur R ^b   Das, Subhash C ^a   Ashraf, Ali ^a   Kim Streatfield, P ^a  

^a Centre for Population Urbanization and Climate Change Icddrb ^*  (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abhoynagar; Bangladesh; Cause of death; InterVA; Mirsarai; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; AUTOPSY; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; AUTOPSY; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84930649441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25511     Document Type: Article

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