SH Wild, Colin Fischbacher, Ashlei Brock, Clare Griffiths et al.
BACKGROUND: Differences in mortality by country of birth in England and Wales in people under 70 years of age have been demonstrated previously. Changes in age distribution of migrants and in migration patterns have occurred subsequently. METHODS: All-cause and circulatory disease mortality for peop...
Masayuki Teramoto, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, A Bhoomadevi, Mohammad Amin Aalipour et al.
BACKGROUND: Timely and comprehensive analyses of causes of death stratified by age, sex, and location are essential for shaping effective health policies aimed at reducing global mortality. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 provides cause-specific mortality e...
Seeromanie Harding, Michael Rosato, Alison Teyhan
OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in migrants to England and Wales. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. OUTCOME MEASURES: Age-standardised and sex-specific death rates and rate ratios 1979-83, 1989-93 and 1999-2003. RESULTS: Coronary mortality fell among migrants, more...
André Briend, Bogdan Wojtyniak, MichaelG.M Rowland
Mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) was measured monthly for 6 months in about 500 children aged 6-36 months from rural Bangladesh. Children who would die within 1 month of screening could be identified with 94% specificity and 56% sensitivity--almost twice the sensitivity achieved by other anthropom...
Navit T. Salzberg, Kasthuri Sivalogan, Quique Bassat, Allan W. Taylor et al.
Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children often die at home, without contact with the health system, and are neither accounted for, nor attributed with a cause of ...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Spencer L James et al.
BACKGROUND: Reliable data on the distribution of causes of death (COD) in a population are fundamental to good public health practice. In the absence of comprehensive medical certification of deaths, the only feasible way to collect essential mortality data is verbal autopsy (VA). The Tariff Method ...
Peter Serina, Ian Riley, Andrea Stewart, Abraham D. Flaxman et al.
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA) is recognized as the only feasible alternative to comprehensive medical certification of deaths in settings with no or unreliable vital registration systems. However, a barrier to its use by national registration systems has been the amount of time and cost needed for...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Nurul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By registering all de...
Quique Bassat, Dianna M. Blau, Ikechukwu U. Ogbuanu, Solomon Samura et al.
Importance: The number of deaths of children younger than 5 years has been steadily decreasing worldwide, from more than 17 million annual deaths in the 1970s to an estimated 5.3 million in 2019 (with 2.8 million deaths occurring in those aged 1-59 months [53% of all deaths in children aged <5 years...
Jordana Leitao, Nikita Desai, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Peter Byass et al.
BACKGROUND: Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death (CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA). We conducted a systematic review of 19 published comparison studies (from 684 evaluated), most ...
A. H. Baqui, Anas Ahmad Sabir, Nazma Begum, Shams El Arifeen et al.
UNLABELLED: Knowledge of the causes of child death is important for health-sector planning since they relate to available interventions. Little is known about causes of child death in Bangladesh from the conventional sources since there is no vital registration system and very few deaths are attende...
Dianna M. Blau, J Patrick Caneer, Rebecca Philipsborn, Shabir A. Madhi et al.
Mortality surveillance and cause of death data are instrumental in improving health, identifying diseases and conditions that cause a high burden of preventable deaths, and allocating resources to prevent these deaths. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network uses a st...
Natalia Rakislova, Fabíola Fernandes, Lucília Lovane, Luisa Jamisse et al.
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) is a simplified postmortem examination technique that has shown to be an adequate approach for cause of death investigation in low-resource settings. It requires relatively low level of infrastructures and can be performed by health professionals...
Ronald A. Schoenenberger, Walter E. Haefeli, P Weiss, R Ritz
<h3>Background</h3> Burn is a major cause of childhood injury-related morbidity and mortality. Global estimates suggest that 90% of all cases occur in low-income and middle-income countries and over half of the disability-adjusted life-years are lost from fire-related burns in children. In Banglades...
Debarati Guha‐Sapir
The increase in the number of natural disasters and their impact on population is of growing concern to countries at risk and agencies involved in health and humanitarian action. The numbers of persons killed or disabled as a result of earthquakes, cyclones, floods and famines have reached record le...