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Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death

Laith Hussain-AlkhateebHealth MetricsSahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Edward FottrellInstitute for Global HealthUniversity College London, London, UK;WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Max PetzoldHealth MetricsSahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;Wits University Rural Public HealthSchool of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Kathleen KahnWHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;Medical Research CouncilJohannesburg, South Africa;Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Peter ByassWHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Medical Research CouncilJohannesburg, South Africa;Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Article: 28302 | Received 21 Apr 2015, Accepted 24 Jun 2015, Published online: 17 Jul 2015

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Kristen Nicole Andersen, Funmilayo Shittu, Abdullahi Magama, Tahlil Ahmed, Damola Bakare, Julius Salako, Rochelle Ann Burgess & Carina King. (2022) Perceptions of child death in Jigawa State, Nigeria: a mixed-methods study on how sociocultural nuances shape paediatric mortality reporting. Global Health Action 15:1.
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Faleh Alyazidi, Deler Shakely, Max Petzold, Fawaz Alyazidi & Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb. (2023) Community perception of causes of death using verbal autopsy for diabetes mellitus in Saudi Arabia. PLOS Global Public Health 3:12, pages e0001690.
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Buddhika P. K. Mahesh, John D. Hart, Ajay Acharya, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Rohina Joshi, Tim Adair & Riley H. Hazard. (2022) Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review. BMC Public Health 22:1.
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Andrew J Seal, Mohamed Jelle, Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod, Hani Mohamed, Raha Ali & Edward Fottrell. (2021) Use of verbal autopsy for establishing causes of child mortality in camps for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia: a population-based, prospective, cohort study. The Lancet Global Health 9:9, pages e1286-e1295.
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Joanna Morrison, Edward Fottrell, Bharat Budhatokhi, Jon Bird, Machhindra Basnet, Mangala Manandhar, Rita Shrestha, Dharma Manandhar & James Wilson. (2018) Applying a Public Health Ethics Framework to Consider Scaled-Up Verbal Autopsy and Verbal Autopsy with Immediate Disclosure of Cause of Death in Rural Nepal. Public Health Ethics 11:3, pages 293-310.
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Hebe N. Gouda, Abraham D. Flaxman, Claire E. Brolan, Rohina Joshi, Ian D. Riley, Carla AbouZahr, Sonja Firth, Rasika Rampatige & Alan D. Lopez. (2017) New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems. Social Science & Medicine 184, pages 65-74.
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Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Barry Spies, Maria van der Merwe, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Stephen Tollman & Peter Byass. (2016) Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality. Global Health Research and Policy 1:1.
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Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Max Petzold, Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn & Peter Byass. (2016) Effects of recall time on cause-of-death findings using verbal autopsy: empirical evidence from rural South Africa. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 13:1.
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