Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old-age mortality. [PDF]
Health Econ, 2023 This paper studies the effects of the enactment of birth registration laws, as the official universal and uniform method of recording births, across US states in the first decades of the 20th century on old-age longevity for children affected by these ...
Noghanibehambari H, Fletcher J.
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Household and context-level determinants of birth registration in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 While according to the United Nations birth registration is a human right, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) only half of new-born children currently have their birth registered.
Ebbers AL, Smits J.
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A Novel Block Chain Method for Urban Digitization Governance in Birth Registration Field: A Case Study. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Even though digitization is widely recognized as one of the most imperative trends in achieving effective urban governance, digital infrastructure remains far from the global trend in many African countries.
Shi J, Danquah SKN, Dong W.
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Too precarious to walk: an integrated "three delays" framework for modeling barriers to maternal health care and birth registration among stateless persons and irregular migrants in Malaysia. [PDF]
Genus, 2021 This study extends Thaddeus and Maine’s (1994) “three delays” framework to model the interrelated barriers to maternal health care and birth registration.
Cheong AR, Baltazar MAK.
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A global and regional assessment of the timing of birth registration using DHS and MICS survey data
Journal of Population Research, 2023 Registration of birth within the first year of life is important to ensure children receive its full benefits and that fertility statistics derived from these data are informative for policy.
Tim Adair, Hang Li, Adair Tim
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Improving the demand for birth registration: a discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2020 Introduction Birth registration remains limited in most low and middle-income countries. We investigated which characteristics of birth registration facilities might determine caregivers’ decisions to register children in Ethiopia. Methods We conducted a
Yihdego M +7 more
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Linkage of maternity hospital episode statistics birth records to birth registration and notification records for births in England 2005-2006: quality assurance of linkage. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives The objectives of this study were to describe the methods used to assess the quality of linkage between records of babies’ birth registration and hospital birth records, and to evaluate the potential bias that may be introduced because of ...
Coathup V, Macfarlane A, Quigley M.
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Improving the timeliness of birth registration in Fiji through a financial incentive [PDF]
Global EpidemiologyBackground: Fiji is a Pacific Island nation with the predominant ethnic groups indigenous Fijians (iTaukei) (62 %) and Fijians of Indian descent (31 %).
Christine Linhart +7 more
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Strategic yet delicate: the dilemma of involving health workers in facilitating birth registration in Indonesia. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2019 BackgroundBirth registration provides the basis for population data. Previous studies have examined that collaboration between the health sector and civil registration can help improve birth registration rate. However, there was a little exploration into
Siagian C +3 more
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Determinants of birth registration of children under 5 years in Uganda
International Journal of Advanced Medical and Health Research, 2019 Background: In Uganda, only about one-third (32%) of children under age 5 have their births registered with the civil authority. There is limited information on factors linked to birth registration in Uganda.
Douglas Andabati Candia
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