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2011 - the year of the method paper using kappa - that odd analytical method that asks --If monkey's were coding, what's the chance they'd agree?...Ok, so what's the chance that two researchers/midwives/physicians or for the sake of argument, two trained monkeys, would agree beyond the just-chance agreement--that's kappa. These are the pre-papers that validate the methods in the upcoming papers, which contain the really interesting results.
Validity and reliability of postpartum questionnaires in Benin, Maternal Child Health Journal, July 29, 2011.
Capturing the context of maternal death from verbal autopsies: a reliability study of the Maternal Data Extraction Tool (M-DET), PlosOne February 2011.
Factors associated with physician agreement and coding choices of cause of death using verbal autopsy for 1130 maternal deaths in India, PlosOne Feb 2012.
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If women counted: the role of skilled birth attendants in surveillance of maternal mortality, in Women's health in the majority world, 2007
I used this apt title, lifted with the gracious permission of Marilyn Waring, from her 1989 book on economics if women mattered. A brillant book - pointing out the many pervasive inequities in existing economies - where a woman carries water for 3 km and according to her country's accounts - she is unproductive. But pipe that water to her house, well, that's something that contributes to the economy.
