The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress

Background Verbal autopsy is a pragmatic approach for generating cause-of-death data in contexts without well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems. It has primarily been conducted in health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in Africa and Asia. Although significant re...

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Published in:	BMC medical ethics Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors:	Hinga, Alex, Marsh, Vicki, Nyaguara, Amek, Wamukoya, Marylene, Molyneux, Sassy
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 04.09.2021 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Automation Autopsy Bioethics Community Data collection Data entry Education Emotional distress Ethical aspects Ethics Global health Health demographic surveillance systems Health surveillance Interviewing Interviews Medical research Methods Moral distress Mortality Mortality data Philosophy Philosophy of Medicine Psychological aspects Public health Theory of Medicine/Bioethics Verbal autopsy Kenya Africa Ethics Health demographic surveillance systems Emotional distress Mortality data Verbal autopsy Moral distress
ISSN:	1472-6939, 1472-6939
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