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 ...
Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
OBJECTIVE: To directly estimate how much smoking contributes to cause-specific mortality in Bangladesh. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted with surveillance data from Matlab, a rural subdistrict. Cases (n = 2213) and controls (n = 261) were men aged 25 to 69 years who had died between 2003 ...
Till Bärnighausen, Seth Berkley, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, David Bishai et al.
In May, 1974, WHO launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization—the global programme to immunise children worldwide with a set of (at the time) six core vaccines. 40 years on, the GAVI Alliance has brought us together, a group of 29 leading technical experts in health and development economics, co...
Nikita Desai, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Pierre Miasnikof, Ying Lu et al.
BACKGROUND: Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is uncommon. Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods have been proposed as a faster and cheaper alternative to PCVA, though they...
Pierre Miasnikof, Vasily Giannakeas, Mireille Gomes, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz et al.
BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsies (VA) are increasingly used in low- and middle-income countries where most causes of death (COD) occur at home without medical attention, and home deaths differ substantially from hospital deaths. Hence, there is no plausible "standard" against which VAs for home deaths m...
Raja Ramachandran, Shabna Sulaiman, Prabhat Chauhan, Ifeoma Ulasi et al.
Introduction: Glomerular diseases are the leading drivers of nondiabetic chronic kidney disease disability-adjusted life years in resource-limited countries. Proper diagnosis and treatment relies on resources including kidney biopsy, ancillary testing, and access to evidence-based therapies. Methods...
Ole Frithjof Norheim, Angela Y. Chang, Sarah Bolongaita, Mariana Barraza-Lloréns et al.
BACKGROUND: Although death in old age is unavoidable, premature death-defined here as death before age 70 years-is not. To assess whether halving premature mortality by 2050 is feasible, we examined the large variation in premature death rates before age 70 years and trends over the past 50 years (1...
Daphne Wu, Eduardo Banzon, Hellen Gelband, Brian Chin et al.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the costs and mortality reductions of a package of essential health interventions for urban populations in Bangladesh and India. METHODS: model. We calculated the benefit-cost ratio for investing in the package, using an analysis based on the Copenhagen Consensus method. FINDI...
Nan Shwe Nwe Htun, Carlo Perrone, Aung Pyae Phyo, Aninda Sen et al.
INTRODUCTION: Causes of deaths often go unrecorded in lower income countries, yet this information is critical. Verbal autopsy is a questionnaire interview with a family member or caregiver to elicit the symptoms and circumstances preceding a death and assign a probable cause. The social and cultura...
Pierre Miasnikof, Vasily Giannakeas, Mireille Gomes, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz et al.
Background: Verbal autopsies (VA) are increasingly used in low- and middle-income countries where most causes of death (COD) occur at home without medical attention, and home deaths differ substantially from hospital deaths. Hence, there is no plausible “standard” against which VAs for home deaths m...
Prabhat Jha
From 2000 to 2010, world-wide death rates before age 70 years fell by approximately 19%, driven in large part by reductions in child mortality 1. Death rates from tobacco-related diseases at these ages fall less slowly, partly because previous generations, characterized by fewer people smoking serio...
Dewan S Alam, Prabhat Jha, Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige, Peter Kim Streatfield et al.
Smoking causes about 25% of all deaths in Bangladeshi men aged 25 to 69 years and an average loss of seven years of life per smoker. Without a substantial increase in smoking cessation rates, which are low among Bangladeshi men, smoking-attributable deaths in Bangladesh are likely to increase.
Nan Shwe Nwe Htun, Koukeo Phommasone, Carlo Perrone, Aung Pyae Phyo et al.
BACKGROUND: In low-income and middle-income countries in southeast Asia, most deaths occur outside of the health-care system without a medically certified cause of death. We did a verbal autopsy study to determine the underlying causes of death in rural areas of the region and to estimate premature ...
Nan Shwe Nwe Htun, Carlo Perrone, Aung Pyae Phyo, Aninda Sen et al.
Pierre Miasnikof, Vasily Giannakeas, Mireille Gomes, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz et al.
Background: Verbal autopsies (VA) are increasingly used in low- and middle-income countries where most causes of death (COD) occur at home without medical attention, and home deaths differ substantially from hospital deaths. Hence, there is no plausible “standard” against which VAs for home deaths m...