Cover; Title; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL AUTOPSY STANDARDS; 2. INTERNATIONAL STANDARD VERBAL AUTOPSY QUESTIONNAIRES; 3. APPLYING ICD-10 TO VERBAL AUTOPSY
Summary
The dearth of reliable data on the levels and causes of mortality in poorer regions of the world continues to plague efforts to build a solid evidence base for health policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation. As a partial solution to this problem, verbal autopsy has become the primary source of information about causes of death in populations lacking vital registration and medical certification. The purpose of this manual is to disseminate new standard data collection and cause-of-death assignment resources for verbal autopsy, and to provide some general guidelines for their use. The manual includes verbal autopsy questionnaires for three age groups, cause-of-death certification and coding guidelines for applying the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD-10) to verbal autopsy and a cause-of-death list for verbal autopsy with corresponding ICD-10 codes
