This process, known as verbal autopsy, has allowed INDEPTH to provide cause of death data unparalleled in the developing world (7).
Demographic modelling, the gathering of ancillary information and linked research programmes allow the causes of declines to be identified.
Within this framework, we allow all causes of illness to appear as a primary diagnosis and, in most cases, also a comorbidity (of other primary diagnoses).
Dysfunctional boards almost always erupt into internecine warfare if nothing is done to allow the causes of dissension and disagreement to be addressed and, hopefully, amicably resolved.
However, earlier recognition of symptoms can allow reversible causes of cognitive decline to be addressed and identification and management of co-morbidities (e.g. depression).
In contrast, a smaller reduction at older ages, where overall death rates are much higher, will allow those causes of death common in this age group to dominate amenable mortality overall.
Third, YLL calculations do not require population estimates, allowing leading cause of deaths to be ranked for parts of the population (such as specific ethnicities or geographic areas) for which population estimates are not available.
Moreover, early intervention with appropriate obstetrical manipulations allowed the cause of dystocia to be resolved and colostrum to be administered immediately after birth, improving neonatal viability.
The OIDP allows the cause of impacts to be linked with the affected dimension by means of the Condition-specific OIDP (CS-OIDP).
Hence analysis of delays was performed on data pre-dating the BPT introduction, allowing all medical causes of delays to be identified and an assessment of their risk to mortality to be performed.
