Erin K Nichols

Biographic Data

ID7554708
NAMEErin K Nichols
GIVEN NAMESErin K
FAMILY NAMENichols
SIGNATURENICHOLS E K
AFFILIATIONSNational Center for Health Statistics
ORCID0000-0002-4917-1412
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study

    Open AccessMonique Maqungo, Nadine Nannan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Verbal autopsy (VA), though imperfect, serves as a vital tool to determine cause-of-death, particularly for out-of-facility deaths, but challenges persist in integrating VA into Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems. OBJECTIVE: To describe the challenges and successes of collecting a national sample of verbal autopsy interviews in South Africa to obtain the cause of death profile in 2017/18. METHODS: We recruited next of kin…

  • Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification

    Open AccessDaniel Chandramohan, Edward Fottrell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    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…

  • A systematic review of vital events tracking by community health agents

    Open AccessErin K Nichols, Nina W Ragunanthan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

  • Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS)

    Open AccessDon De Savigny, Ian Riley et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    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…

  • Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring

    Open AccessJordana Leitao, Daniel Chandramohan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2013

    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…

  • Implications of the WHO Child Growth Standards in rural Honduras

    Open AccessErin K Nichols, Joseph S Nichols et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2012

    Objective The present study analysed the impact of using the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards (‘the WHO standards’) compared with the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) international growth reference (‘the NCHS reference’) on the calculated prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children aged 6·0–59·9 months. Design Anthropometric data were collected as part of a cross-sectional study exploring the association between household envir…