Analysis of causes of death in Myanmar using verbal autopsies

Between November 2017 and February 2019, Dr. Nway Nway Thet Kywal from Myanmar, completed a fellowship funded by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, to analyse the causes of deaths in Myanmar using verbal autopsy data. This CRVS Fellowship Report provides an overview of the civil registration and vital statistics system in Myanmar, including the implementation of verbal autopsy, and provides summary results of causes of deaths using verbal autopsy and hospital data from 14 townships collected from January to December 2017, contrasted with Global Burden of Disease (GBD) results for Myanmar.

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CRVS Fellowship Reports and Profiles

The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health (D4H) Initiative’s CRVS Fellowship Program at the University of Melbourne (UoM) provided fellows with an in-depth participatory learning and knowledge sharing opportunity to work with a country on their CRVS initiatives. These reports are written by...

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Domains
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Resource Type
Report
Topics
cause of death
mortality statistics
verbal autopsy
Country
Myanmar
Language
English
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