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Who dies where? Estimating the percentage of deaths that occur at home.

Timothy Adair
Published in: BMJ global health (2021)
The study demonstrates substantial diversity in the location of deaths in LMICs and fills a significant gap in knowledge about where people die, given its importance for health systems and policies. The high proportion of deaths in LMICs that occur at home reinforces the need for routine verbal autopsy to determine the causes of death.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • working memory
  • clinical practice