Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems : adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy

The authors thank the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) management team for their support of this project. Analyses are based on data collected by the Unit. Support for the Agincourt HDSS site comes from the School of Public Health and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, and the Medical Research Council, South Africa, with core funding from the Wellcome Trust, UK (Grants 058893/Z/99/A; 069683/Z/02/Z; 085477/Z/08/Z) and contributions from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the NIH, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Andrew W Mellon Foundation, USA. Conceptualisation of COMCAT was supported through a parent study funded by the Joint Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/N005597/1 and MR/P014844/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD