Published in Glob Health Action on September 03, 2012
Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia in 2010: estimates of incidence, severe morbidity, mortality, underlying risk factors and causative pathogens for 192 countries. J Glob Health (2013) 3.30
The effect of increased coverage of participatory women's groups on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: A cluster randomized trial. JAMA Pediatr (2013) 2.95
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring. Glob Health Action (2013) 2.69
Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods. BMC Med (2014) 2.39
InterVA-4 as a public health tool for measuring HIV/AIDS mortality: a validation study from five African countries. Glob Health Action (2013) 1.59
Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.56
Cause-specific neonatal mortality: analysis of 3772 neonatal deaths in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi and India. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed (2015) 1.48
Usefulness of the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy data for general verbal autopsy methods. BMC Med (2014) 1.37
Cause-specific mortality at INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites in Africa and Asia: concluding synthesis. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.22
An analysis of pregnancy-related mortality in the KEMRI/CDC health and demographic surveillance system in western Kenya. PLoS One (2013) 1.18
Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Med (2014) 1.15
Understanding maternal mortality from top-down and bottom-up perspectives: Case of Tigray Region, Ethiopia. J Glob Health (2015) 1.15
Two decades of mortality change in rural northeast South Africa. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.10
Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.08
Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.07
Verbal autopsy as a tool for identifying children dying of sickle cell disease: a validation study conducted in Kilifi district, Kenya. BMC Med (2014) 1.03
Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies. BMC Med (2015) 1.03
Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia. J Glob Health (2015) 1.02
HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 1.01
The impacts of maternal mortality and cause of death on children's risk of dying in rural South Africa: evidence from a population based surveillance study (1992-2013). Reprod Health (2015) 0.99
Measuring causes of adult mortality in rural northern Malawi over a decade of change. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.98
Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.98
Nationwide evaluation of malaria infections, morbidity, mortality, and coverage of malaria control interventions in Madagascar. Malar J (2014) 0.97
Undertaking cause-specific mortality measurement in an unregistered population: an example from Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.97
Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.97
Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.97
Burden of disease in adults admitted to hospital in a rural region of coastal Kenya: an analysis of data from linked clinical and demographic surveillance systems. Lancet Glob Health (2014) 0.95
Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa. Glob Health Action (2012) 0.94
Evidence for localised HIV related micro-epidemics associated with the decentralised provision of antiretroviral treatment in rural South Africa: a spatio-temporal analysis of changing mortality patterns (2007-2010). J Glob Health (2014) 0.93
Validating the InterVA model to estimate the burden of mortality from verbal autopsy data: a population-based cross-sectional study. PLoS One (2013) 0.93
InterVA versus Spectrum: how comparable are they in estimating AIDS mortality patterns in Nairobi's informal settlements? Glob Health Action (2013) 0.91
Childhood cause-specific mortality in rural Western Kenya: application of the InterVA-4 model. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.91
Estimating global and regional morbidity from acute bacterial meningitis in children: assessment of the evidence. Croat Med J (2013) 0.89
Age-specific malaria mortality rates in the KEMRI/CDC health and demographic surveillance system in western Kenya, 2003-2010. PLoS One (2014) 0.89
Prospects for automated diagnosis of verbal autopsies. BMC Med (2014) 0.88
Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.88
Constructing maternal morbidity - towards a standard tool to measure and monitor maternal health beyond mortality. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2016) 0.87
Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic status in Chakaria, Bangladesh. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.86
Causes of death in two rural demographic surveillance sites in Bangladesh, 2004-2010: automated coding of verbal autopsies using InterVA-4. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.86
Trends in non-communicable disease mortality among adult residents in Nairobi's slums, 2003-2011: applying InterVA-4 to verbal autopsy data. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.85
Is global health really global? Glob Health Action (2013) 0.85
Can innovative ambulance transport avert pregnancy-related deaths? One-year operational assessment in Ethiopia. J Glob Health (2016) 0.85
Diverse Empirical Evidence on Epidemiological Transition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Population-Based Findings from INDEPTH Network Data. PLoS One (2016) 0.84
Burden, timing and causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: protocol for a prospective cohort study. J Glob Health (2016) 0.84
Causes of death in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, Côte d'Ivoire, from 2009 to 2011. Glob Health Action (2015) 0.84
Global network for women's and children's health research: a system for low-resource areas to determine probable causes of stillbirth, neonatal, and maternal death. Matern Health Neonatol Perinatol (2015) 0.83
Causes of death among persons of all ages within the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kenya, determined from verbal autopsies interpreted using the InterVA-4 model. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.83
A probabilistic method to estimate the burden of maternal morbidity in resource-poor settings: preliminary development and evaluation. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2014) 0.83
Disease-specific mortality burdens in a rural Gambian population using verbal autopsy, 1998-2007. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.83
Determinants of the risk of dying of HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community over the period of the decentralised roll-out of antiretroviral therapy: a longitudinal study. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.83
Distribution of cause of death in rural Bangladesh during 2003-2010: evidence from two rural areas within Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance site. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.81
Record-linkage comparison of verbal autopsy and routine civil registration death certification in rural north-east South Africa: 2006-09. Int J Epidemiol (2014) 0.81
Who died of what in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a cause of death analysis using InterVA-4. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.80
Verbal Autopsy: Evaluation of Methods to Certify Causes of Death in Uganda. PLoS One (2015) 0.80
A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa. PLoS Med (2015) 0.80
Naive Bayes classifiers for verbal autopsies: comparison to physician-based classification for 21,000 child and adult deaths. BMC Med (2015) 0.79
Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies. J Am Stat Assoc (2016) 0.79
Changing use of traditional healthcare amongst those dying of HIV related disease and TB in rural South Africa from 2003 - 2011: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Complement Altern Med (2014) 0.78
Applying the InterVA-4 model to determine causes of death in rural Ethiopia. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.78
Effects of recall time on cause-of-death findings using verbal autopsy: empirical evidence from rural South Africa. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2016) 0.78
Cause of death during 2009-2012, using a probabilistic model (InterVA-4): an experience from Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System in India. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.78
Estimating cause of adult (15+ years) death using InterVA-4 in a rural district of southern Ghana. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.78
When, Where, and Why Are Babies Dying? Neonatal Death Surveillance and Review in Bangladesh. PLoS One (2016) 0.78
Validating hierarchical verbal autopsy expert algorithms in a large data set with known causes of death. J Glob Health (2016) 0.77
Comparing causes of death between formal and informal neighborhoods in urban Africa: evidence from Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.77
Local perceptions of causes of death in rural South Africa: a comparison of perceived and verbal autopsy causes of death. Glob Health Action (2015) 0.77
Risk Factors for Maternal Mortality in Rural Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A Case-Control Study. PLoS One (2015) 0.77
Remotely Sensed Environmental Conditions and Malaria Mortality in Three Malaria Endemic Regions in Western Kenya. PLoS One (2016) 0.76
Trends in the burden of HIV mortality after roll-out of antiretroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: an observational community cohort study. Lancet HIV (2016) 0.76
High mortality and prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis in adults with chronic cough in Malawi: a cohort study. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2016) 0.76
Moving towards better cause of death registration in Africa and Asia. Glob Health Action (2014) 0.76
Maternal infection and risk of intrapartum death: a population based observational study in South Asia. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.75
Measuring mortality due to HIV-associated tuberculosis among adults in South Africa: Comparing verbal autopsy, minimally-invasive autopsy, and research data. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Deaths ascribed to non-communicable diseases among rural Kenyan adults are proportionately increasing: evidence from a health and demographic surveillance system, 2003-2010. PLoS One (2014) 0.75
Trends in Causes of Adult Deaths among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System, 2003-2012. J Urban Health (2015) 0.75
A feasibility study on using smartphones to conduct short-version verbal autopsies in rural China. Popul Health Metr (2016) 0.75
How much do the physician review and InterVA model agree in determining causes of death? A comparative analysis of deaths in rural Ethiopia. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.75
The Global Network Neonatal Cause of Death algorithm for low-resource settings. Acta Paediatr (2017) 0.75
Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling of mortality in relation to malaria incidence in Western Kenya. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
The INDEPTH Network: filling vital gaps in global epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 4.64
Verbal autopsy: methods in transition. Epidemiol Rev (2010) 3.99
Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 3.47
Refining a probabilistic model for interpreting verbal autopsy data. Scand J Public Health (2006) 3.44
Sickle cell disease in Africa: a neglected cause of early childhood mortality. Am J Prev Med (2011) 3.35
A probabilistic approach to interpreting verbal autopsies: methodology and preliminary validation in Vietnam. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2003) 3.16
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.62
How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability. N Engl J Med (1986) 2.51
Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt, South Africa: approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findings. PLoS Med (2010) 2.48
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies. Popul Health Metr (2007) 2.43
Autopsy causes of death in HIV-positive individuals in sub-Saharan Africa and correlation with clinical diagnoses. AIDS Rev (2010) 2.09
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Popul Health Metr (2011) 2.06
Verbal autopsy interpretation: a comparative analysis of the InterVA model versus physician review in determining causes of death in the Nairobi DSS. Popul Health Metr (2010) 2.04
Verbal autopsy-based cause-specific mortality trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000-2009. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.98
Evaluating the InterVA model for determining AIDS mortality from verbal autopsies in the adult population of Addis Ababa. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 1.86
The autopsy as an outcome and performance measure. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) (2002) 1.71
Validating physician-certified verbal autopsy and probabilistic modeling (InterVA) approaches to verbal autopsy interpretation using hospital causes of adult deaths. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.63
The unequal world of health data. PLoS Med (2009) 1.57
Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: the case of HIV-related mortality in South Africa. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.39
Mortality measurement in transition: proof of principle for standardised multi-country comparisons. Trop Med Int Health (2010) 1.29
Adaptation of a probabilistic method (InterVA) of verbal autopsy to improve the interpretation of cause of stillbirth and neonatal death in Malawi, Nepal, and Zimbabwe. Popul Health Metr (2011) 1.27
Assessing the repeatability of verbal autopsy for determining cause of death: two case studies among women of reproductive age in Burkina Faso and Indonesia. Popul Health Metr (2009) 1.24
The epidemiology of pregnancy outcomes in rural Burkina Faso. Trop Med Int Health (2008) 1.23
Cause of death distribution with InterVA and physician coding in a rural area of Burkina Faso. Trop Med Int Health (2012) 1.21
Probabilistic methods for verbal autopsy interpretation: InterVA robustness in relation to variations in a priori probabilities. PLoS One (2011) 1.15
Socioeconomic factors and all cause and cause-specific mortality among older people in Latin America, India, and China: a population-based cohort study. PLoS Med (2012) 1.05
Increased use of social autopsy is needed to improve maternal, neonatal and child health programmes in low-income countries. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 1.04
Factors associated with physician agreement and coding choices of cause of death using verbal autopsies for 1130 maternal deaths in India. PLoS One (2012) 0.99
Whither verbal autopsy? Popul Health Metr (2011) 0.99
Strategies for reducing maternal mortality: getting on with what works. Lancet (2006) 21.74
Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why. Lancet (2006) 21.46
First results of phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African children. N Engl J Med (2011) 10.79
Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study. Lancet Infect Dis (2012) 8.02
The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa. Lancet (2009) 6.89
Verbal autopsy: current practices and challenges. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 6.66
A phase 3 trial of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine in African infants. N Engl J Med (2012) 6.64
Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2013) 6.15
Global burden of respiratory infections due to seasonal influenza in young children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2011) 5.43
Use of antenatal services and delivery care among women in rural western Kenya: a community based survey. Reprod Health (2006) 5.12
Increases in adult life expectancy in rural South Africa: valuing the scale-up of HIV treatment. Science (2013) 5.01
Maternal health in poor countries: the broader context and a call for action. Lancet (2006) 4.72
Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study. Lancet (2008) 4.69
Antifolate antimalarial resistance in southeast Africa: a population-based analysis. Lancet (2003) 4.26
Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 4.01
Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet (2013) 3.98
Cluster randomised trial of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants in area of high, seasonal transmission in Ghana. BMJ (2005) 3.87
Identification of hot spots of malaria transmission for targeted malaria control. J Infect Dis (2010) 3.86
Migration, settlement change and health in post-apartheid South Africa: triangulating health and demographic surveillance with national census data. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 3.72
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania. Trop Med Int Health (2006) 3.62
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy. Bull World Health Organ (2007) 3.59
Assessing a new approach to verbal autopsy interpretation in a rural Ethiopian community: the InterVA model. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 3.47
Refining a probabilistic model for interpreting verbal autopsy data. Scand J Public Health (2006) 3.44
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: guidelines for implementation of CHNRI method. Croat Med J (2008) 3.42
Mortality trends in a new South Africa: hard to make a fresh start. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 3.42
Profile: Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 3.41
Multiple origins and regional dispersal of resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum malaria. PLoS Med (2009) 3.38
Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities. Lancet (2009) 3.35
Returning home to die: circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 3.32
An outbreak of serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in northern Ghana with features that are characteristic of Neisseria meningitidis meningitis epidemics. J Infect Dis (2005) 3.25
Setting priorities in global child health research investments: assessment of principles and practice. Croat Med J (2007) 3.24
Health and demographic surveillance in rural western Kenya: a platform for evaluating interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2005) 3.15
Probabilistic projections of the total fertility rate for all countries. Demography (2011) 3.07
Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa. Science (2014) 3.05
Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration. Glob Health Action (2010) 2.94
Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring. Glob Health Action (2013) 2.69
Epidemiology of malaria in the forest-savanna transitional zone of Ghana. Malar J (2009) 2.67
Fertility trends and net reproduction in Agincourt, rural South Africa, 1992-2004. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 2.62
Molecular determination of point mutation haplotypes in the dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase of Plasmodium falciparum in three districts of northern Tanzania. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2003) 2.57
Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01E candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 2.54
HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among individuals aged 13-34 years in Rural Western Kenya. PLoS One (2009) 2.54
Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt, South Africa: approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findings. PLoS Med (2010) 2.48
Profile of the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 2.44
Childhood mortality among former Mozambican refugees and their hosts in rural South Africa. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 2.44
Revealing the burden of maternal mortality: a probabilistic model for determining pregnancy-related causes of death from verbal autopsies. Popul Health Metr (2007) 2.43
Prospective study of a serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis outbreak in northern Ghana. J Infect Dis (2002) 2.40
Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. PLoS Med (2006) 2.36
Effect on the incidence of pneumonia of vitamin D supplementation by quarterly bolus dose to infants in Kabul: a randomised controlled superiority trial. Lancet (2012) 2.21
Seasonal intermittent preventive treatment for the prevention of anaemia and malaria in Ghanaian children: a randomized, placebo controlled trial. PLoS One (2008) 2.19
High resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine in northern Tanzania and the emergence of dhps resistance mutation at Codon 581. PLoS One (2009) 2.18
Deploying artemether-lumefantrine with rapid testing in Ethiopian communities: impact on malaria morbidity, mortality and healthcare resources. Trop Med Int Health (2009) 2.17
Prognostic factors in obstetric patients admitted to an Indian intensive care unit. Crit Care Med (2004) 2.13
The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children. BMC Public Health (2010) 2.08
Intermittent screening and treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. PLoS One (2010) 2.03
Suicide an emerging public health problem: evidence from rural Haryana, India. Indian J Public Health (2013) 2.03
Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of amodiaquine plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine used alone or in combination for malaria treatment in pregnancy: a randomised trial. Lancet (2006) 2.00
Reflections on the global burden of disease 2010 estimates. PLoS Med (2013) 2.00
Demographic Surveillance Sites and emerging challenges in international health. Bull World Health Organ (2006) 1.93
Practical lessons from global safe motherhood initiatives: time for a new focus on implementation. Lancet (2007) 1.91
The need for new antibiotics. Lancet (2010) 1.85
Prevalence of HIV among those 15 and older in rural South Africa. AIDS Care (2013) 1.84
Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 1.83
The imperfect world of global health estimates. PLoS Med (2010) 1.81
Understanding and managing hypertension in an African sub-district: a multidisciplinary approach. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 1.80
Factors affecting antenatal care attendance: results from qualitative studies in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. PLoS One (2013) 1.72
Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Africa: what's new, what's needed? Malar J (2007) 1.72
Prevalence of malaria and sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections in pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. JAMA (2012) 1.71
Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 1.70
An open label, randomised trial of artesunate+amodiaquine, artesunate+chlorproguanil-dapsone and artemether-lumefantrine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. PLoS One (2008) 1.68
What's new? Investigating risk factors for severe childhood malnutrition in a high HIV prevalence South African setting. Scand J Public Health Suppl (2007) 1.67
Severe falciparum malaria in young children of the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana. Malar J (2007) 1.67