More than two-thirds of the world's population lives in countries that lack a reliable system for issuing medical death certificates, leaving the true scale and distribution of disease in serious ...

Improved tools are now underway for determining the causes of death in settings where medical examinations or post-mortem autopsies are not routinely conducted. The population-based approach, namely ...

‘Verbal autopsy’ (VA) is used to ascertain cause of death in countries where vital registration systems are lacking. Current VA methods for neonatal deaths vary widely and suffer from several ...