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Extended verbal autopsy in Burkina Faso & Indonesia
Posted: Sunday Jun 6, 2010
A recently published article in the journal Social Science & Medicine details how the authors extended the established verbal autopsy (VA) method to investigate socio-cultural factors relevant to the deaths of women during pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum period in rural districts in Indonesia and Burkina Faso.
D'Ambruoso, L., Byass, P., Qomariyah, S.N., Ouedraogo, M. A lost cause? Extending verbal autopsy to investigate biomedical and sociocultural causes of maternal death in Burkina Faso and Indonesia. Social Science & Medicine (2010). doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.05.023
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