A lost cause? Extending verbal autopsy to investigate biomedical and socio-cultural causes of maternal death in Burkina Faso and Indonesia

Arts & Humanities

• Burkina Faso 100%
• Autopsy 78%
• Indonesia 54%
• Cause of Death 50%
• Health 45%
• Causes 40%
• Planning 28%
• Maternal Mortality 25%
• Childbirth 24%
• Malaria 23%
• Infectious Diseases 22%
• Local Knowledge 21%
• Cultural Factors 19%
• Developing Countries 19%
• Cultural Landscape 19%
• Registration 18%
• Surveillance 17%
• Exclusion 17%
• Emergency 17%
• Pregnancy 16%
• Causation 16%
• Pathway 15%
• Healthcare 11%
• Income 9%
• Economics 8%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Burkina Faso 96%
• Maternal Death 85%
• Indonesia 82%
• Autopsy 59%
• Cause of Death 55%
• Health Planning 44%
• Maternal Mortality 20%
• Health Facilities 18%
• Postpartum Period 16%
• Causality 16%
• Malaria 16%
• Developing Countries 15%
• Signs and Symptoms 15%
• Quality of Health Care 15%
• Communicable Diseases 15%
• Income 14%
• Economics 13%
• Emergencies 13%
• Parturition 12%
• Interviews 11%
• Hemorrhage 11%
• Delivery of Health Care 10%
• Pregnancy 10%
• Health 8%

Social Sciences

• Burkina Faso 90%
• Indonesia 60%
• death 50%
• cause 41%
• cause of death 39%
• district 24%
• health 23%
• life saving 22%
• cultural landscape 21%
• health planning 21%
• maternal mortality 21%
• sociocultural factors 20%
• contagious disease 17%
• surveillance 15%
• pregnancy 14%
• low income 13%
• Healthcare 13%
• developing country 13%
• exclusion 12%
• planning 10%
• interview 7%
• economics 7%
• experience 5%