A Semantic-Based Framework for Verbal Autopsy to Identify the Cause of Maternal Death.

Objective: Verbal autopsy is a technique used to collect information about a decedent from his/her family members using questionnaires, conducting interviews, making observations, and sampling. In substantial parts of the world, particularly in Africa and Asia, many deaths are unrecorded. In 2017, globally pregnant women were dying daily around 810 and 295,000 in a year because of pregnancy-related problems, pointed out by World Health Organization.

A Health Informatics Reporting System for Technology Illiterate Workforce Using Mobile Phone.

Background: The reduction and control over neonatal, infant, and maternal mortality is a collective mission of the World Health Organization under United Nations.

Methods: This article summarizes the automation of verbal autopsy reporting for neonatal, infant, and maternal mortality with primary focus on user-centered design for technologically illiterate workforce with minimum available resources. The diminution in neonatal, infant, and maternal deaths is not possible until grassroot level quality data are available for mortality.