Carla Abouzahr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1445683 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carla Abouzahr |
| NOMBRES | Carla |
| APELLIDO | Abouzahr |
| FIRMA | ABOUZAHR C |
| AFILIACIONES | CAZ Consulting, Geneva, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7421-7884 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA). VA involves an interview of the family or caregivers of the deceased after a suitable bereavement interval about the circumstances, signs and symptoms of the deceased in the period leading to death. The VA interview d…
Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh
Routine VA collection using automated methods is feasible, can produce plausible results and provides critical information on community COD in Bangladesh. Routine VA and VIPER have potential application to countries with weak death registration systems
The Covid-19 Pandemic
The complex and evolving picture of COVID-19–related mortality highlights the need for data to guide the response. Yet many countries are struggling to maintain their data systems, including the civil registration system, which is the foundation for detailed and continuously available mortality statistics. We conducted a search of country and development agency Web sites and partner and media reports describing disruptions to the civil registrati…
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Global estimates of country health indicators
BACKGROUND: The MDG era relied on global health estimates to fill data gaps and ensure temporal and cross-country comparability in reporting progress. Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals will present new challenges, requiring enhanced capacities to generate, analyse, interpret and use country produced data. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the development of global health estimates and discuss their utility and limitations from global and country…
Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS)
BACKGROUND: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. However, less than one-third of deaths worldwide are assigned a cause. Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries are failing to provide timely, complete and accurate vital statistics…
Bridging the data gaps
New challenges for verbal autopsy
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems
In Memoriam
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring
OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews. Our objective here is to describe the process used to shorten, simplify, and standardise the VA process to make it feasible for application on a larger scale such as in routine civil registration and vital statist…
New estimates of maternal mortality and how to interpret them
Two independent exercises to estimate levels of maternal mortality took place during 2010, one published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, USA, the other published by four UN agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank and World Health Organization). Although both approaches are based on similar sets of empirical country data, their statistical methods differ in important respects--with implications for the resulting global, …
Indepth @ 10
O n the occasion of its 10th anniversary this year, the INDEPTH Network (www.indepth-network. org) can look back on some very significant accomplishments. It has established itself as an entity in the field of health research, has widespread brand recognition, and is known and respected globally. The Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites are healthy and vibrant hotbeds of grounded, high quality research, training and service pro…
A scandal of invisibility
Disability adjusted life years (Dalys) and reproductive health
How well does the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) perform for quantifying the global burden of disease associated with reproductive ill-health? This paper argues that the methodology is an advance on other quantification methods. For the first time, there are measures ofreproductive ill-health which include morbidity as well as mortality, and they give a better grasp on the make-up of the overall burden in terms of geographic area. The weakn…
The Covid-19 Pandemic
The complex and evolving picture of COVID-19–related mortality highlights the need for data to guide the response. Yet many countries are struggling to maintain their data systems, including the civil registration system, which is the foundation for detailed and continuously available mortality statistics. We conducted a search of country and development agency Web sites and partner and media reports describing disruptions to the civil registrati…
Disability adjusted life years (Dalys) and reproductive health
How well does the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) perform for quantifying the global burden of disease associated with reproductive ill-health? This paper argues that the methodology is an advance on other quantification methods. For the first time, there are measures ofreproductive ill-health which include morbidity as well as mortality, and they give a better grasp on the make-up of the overall burden in terms of geographic area. The weakn…
New estimates of maternal mortality and how to interpret them
Two independent exercises to estimate levels of maternal mortality took place during 2010, one published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, USA, the other published by four UN agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank and World Health Organization). Although both approaches are based on similar sets of empirical country data, their statistical methods differ in important respects--with implications for the resulting global, …
New challenges for verbal autopsy
Disability adjusted life years (Dalys) and reproductive health
How well does the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) perform for quantifying the global burden of disease associated with reproductive ill-health? This paper argues that the methodology is an advance on other quantification methods. For the first time, there are measures ofreproductive ill-health which include morbidity as well as mortality, and they give a better grasp on the make-up of the overall burden in terms of geographic area. The weakn…
A scandal of invisibility
Indepth @ 10
O n the occasion of its 10th anniversary this year, the INDEPTH Network (www.indepth-network. org) can look back on some very significant accomplishments. It has established itself as an entity in the field of health research, has widespread brand recognition, and is known and respected globally. The Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites are healthy and vibrant hotbeds of grounded, high quality research, training and service pro…
New estimates of maternal mortality and how to interpret them
Two independent exercises to estimate levels of maternal mortality took place during 2010, one published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, USA, the other published by four UN agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank and World Health Organization). Although both approaches are based on similar sets of empirical country data, their statistical methods differ in important respects--with implications for the resulting global, …
In Memoriam
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring
OBJECTIVE: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews. Our objective here is to describe the process used to shorten, simplify, and standardise the VA process to make it feasible for application on a larger scale such as in routine civil registration and vital statist…
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems
Global estimates of country health indicators
BACKGROUND: The MDG era relied on global health estimates to fill data gaps and ensure temporal and cross-country comparability in reporting progress. Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals will present new challenges, requiring enhanced capacities to generate, analyse, interpret and use country produced data. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the development of global health estimates and discuss their utility and limitations from global and country…
Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS)
BACKGROUND: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. However, less than one-third of deaths worldwide are assigned a cause. Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries are failing to provide timely, complete and accurate vital statistics…
Bridging the data gaps
New challenges for verbal autopsy
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA). VA involves an interview of the family or caregivers of the deceased after a suitable bereavement interval about the circumstances, signs and symptoms of the deceased in the period leading to death. The VA interview d…
Routine mortality surveillance to identify the cause of death pattern for out-of-hospital adult (aged 12+ years) deaths in Bangladesh
Routine VA collection using automated methods is feasible, can produce plausible results and provides critical information on community COD in Bangladesh. Routine VA and VIPER have potential application to countries with weak death registration systems
The Covid-19 Pandemic
The complex and evolving picture of COVID-19–related mortality highlights the need for data to guide the response. Yet many countries are struggling to maintain their data systems, including the civil registration system, which is the foundation for detailed and continuously available mortality statistics. We conducted a search of country and development agency Web sites and partner and media reports describing disruptions to the civil registrati…
Global Maternal and Child Health (11 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Cause of death (5 obras) · Pathology (5 obras) · Verbal autopsy (5 obras) · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (4 obras) · Disease (4 obras) · Economics (4 obras)