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Mortality Surveillance Methods to Identify and Characterize Deaths in Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network Sites

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Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Methods Consortium

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Despite reductions over the past 2 decades, childhood
                mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries in
                sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In these settings, children
                often die at home, without contact with the health system, and
                are neither accounted for, nor attributed with a cause of death.
                In addition, when cause of death determinations occur, they
                often use nonspecific methods. Consequently, findings from
                models currently utilized to build national and global estimates
                of causes of death are associated with substantial uncertainty.
                Higher-quality data would enable stakeholders to effectively
                target interventions for the leading causes of childhood
                mortality, a critical component to achieving the Sustainable
                Development Goals by eliminating preventable perinatal and
                childhood deaths. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention
                Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network tracks the causes of under-5
                mortality and stillbirths at sites in sub-Saharan Africa and
                South Asia through comprehensive mortality surveillance,
                utilizing minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS), postmortem
                laboratory and pathology testing, verbal autopsy, and clinical
                and demographic data. CHAMPS sites have established facility-
                and community-based mortality notification systems, which aim to
                report potentially eligible deaths, defined as under-5 deaths
                and stillbirths within a defined catchment area, within 24-36
                hours so that MITS can be conducted quickly after death. Where
                MITS has been conducted, a final cause of death is determined by
                an expert review panel. Data on cause of death will be provided
                to local, national, and global stakeholders to inform strategies
                to reduce perinatal and childhood mortality in sub-Saharan
                Africa and South Asia.

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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019, vol. 69, supl. 4, p. S262–S273

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Mortality Surveillance Methods to Identify and Characterize Deaths in Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network Sites