From: Abraham D. Flaxman
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 9:46 PM
To: Deepa Rao; Stephen Gloyd
Subject: MOZ Self-Harm in GBD
I didn’t want to get in the way of any presenters today, and I didn’t have a chance to catch you afterwards on the MOZ self-harm estimates from GBD, but we actually have a pretty good tool for digging into questions like this now: http://ihmeuw.org/3c2f
If you click on a data point, it links to a page on the source. In this case, there are two verbal autopsies as sources, one nationally representative, and one for a DSS site: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/mozambique-manhi%C3%A7a-health-and-demographic-surveillance-system http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/mozambique-national-survey-causes-death-2007-2008 on the topic of VA, you might suspect that these measurements are lower than the truth, since stigma, and how is a VA going to get coded to suicide if the respondent says it was an accident?
–Abie
Abraham D. Flaxman
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | University of Washington
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