Bull World Health Organ. 1994;72(5):707-13.
A joint WHO/UNICEF informal consultation on the "Measurement of overall and cause-specific mortality in infants and children" was held in Geneva on 15-17 December 1992. The participants included physicians, demographers, statisticians and programme personnel from different regions. The recommendations were aimed at helping countries and international organizations to produce more frequent and more reliable data on overall child mortality and to estimate broad patterns of child mortality by cause of death, especially for ranking the major causes of death and monitoring progress towards the achievement of mortality reduction goals of the World Summit for Children. The verbal autopsy method was reviewed to assess its potential for use in different situations--surveys, longitudinal surveillance, health services and civil registration--and its capacity to provide national estimates of cause of death. Documented national and international experiences and validation studies were examined together with other methods already being used. The potential of the preceding birth technique and other indirect methods to estimate mortality in childhood--for use by countries and programmes more frequently and with as much disaggregation as possible--was evaluated.
1992年12月15日至17日，世界卫生组织/联合国儿童基金会就“婴幼儿总体死亡率及死因别死亡率的衡量”举行了一次非正式磋商会。与会者包括来自不同地区的医生、人口统计学家、统计学家和项目人员。这些建议旨在帮助各国和国际组织更频繁、更可靠地收集有关儿童总体死亡率的数据，并按死因估计儿童死亡的大致模式，特别是为主要死因进行排序以及监测实现儿童问题世界首脑会议降低死亡率目标的进展情况。对口头尸检方法进行了审查，以评估其在不同情形（调查、纵向监测、卫生服务和民事登记）下的应用潜力及其提供全国死因估计数的能力。同时审查了有记录的国家和国际经验以及验证研究，以及其他正在使用的方法。评估了前位出生技术和其他间接方法在各国和各项目中更频繁、尽可能详细地估计儿童期死亡率方面的潜力。
