Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
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Trop. Med. Int. Health · May 2006
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania.
To validate verbal autopsy (VA) procedures for use in sample vital registration. Verbal autopsy is an important method for deriving cause-specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause-specific mortality data do not exist. ⋯ Verbal autopsy reliably estimated CSMFs for diseases of public health importance in all age groups. Further validation is needed to assess reasons for lack of positive results for some conditions.
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Trop. Med. Int. Health · May 2006
The burden of disease in Zimbabwe in 1997 as measured by disability-adjusted life years lost.
To rank health problems contributing most to the burden of disease in Zimbabwe using disability-adjusted life years as the population health measure. ⋯ Using local sources of information to a large extent, it was possible to develop plausible estimates of the size and the relative significance of the major health problems in Zimbabwe. The disease pattern of Zimbabwe differed substantially from regional estimates for sub-Saharan Africa justifying the need for countries to develop their own burden of disease estimates.