Economic feasibility of a new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mortality data provide essential evidence on the health status of populations in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings and to guide and assess relief operations. Retrospective surveys are commonly used to collect mortality data in such populations, but require substantial resources and have important methodological limitations. We evaluated the feasibility of an alternative method for rapidly quantifying mortality (the informant method). The study objective was to assess the economic feasibility of the informant method.

Methods

The informant method captures deaths through an exhaustive search for all deaths occurring in a population over a defined and recent recall period, using key community informants and next-of-kin of decedents. Between July and October

SUBMITTER: Roberts B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176324 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature