Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): system-level considerations [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2017 Background: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.
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Automated verbal autopsy: from research to routine use in civil registration and vital statistics systems [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2020 Background The majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have adequate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems to properly support health policy formulation.
Riley H. Hazard +13 more
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Protocol for analysing the epidemiology of maternal mortality in Zimbabwe: A civil registration and vital statistics trend study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundSub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries the highest burden of maternal mortality, yet, the accurate maternal mortality ratios (MMR) are uncertain in most SSA countries.
Reuben Musarandega +4 more
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Improving coverage of civil registration and vital statistics, Bangladesh. [PDF]
Bull World Health Organ, 2019 Bangladesh has no national system for registering deaths and determining their causes. As a result, policy-makers lack reliable and complete data to inform public health decisions.In 2016, the government of Bangladesh introduced a pilot project to strengthen the civil registration and vital statistics system and generate cause of death data in Kaliganj
Uddin M +9 more
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How has COVID-19 impacted the civil registration and vital statistics system in Loreto, Perú? Evidence using process mapping and qualitative analysis [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Accurate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are the primary data source to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality.
John Hart +4 more
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Comparative performance of national civil registration and vital statistics systems: a global assessment. [PDF]
Bull World Health Organ, 2023 To assess the current state of the world's civil registration and vital statistics systems based on publicly available data and to propose strategic development pathways, including priority interventions, for countries at different levels of civil registration and vital statistics performance.We applied a performance assessment framework to publicly ...
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Rapid assessment of Malawi's civil registration and vital statistics system. [PDF]
Public Health Action, 2015 In 2010, Malawi adopted a National Registration Act, making the registration of births and deaths compulsory, and efforts to improve Malawi's civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system are underway. During a participatory-style workshop, stakeholders completed a rapid assessment of the national civil registration and vital statistics systems.
Nichols EK +5 more
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An introduction to the civil registration and vital statistics systems with applications in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019 In collaboration with development partners, the World Bank Group (WBG) has been working to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle-income countries through lending operations, technical assistance projects ...
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Genus, 2021 Malaysia has a well-established civil registration system dating back to the 1960s. Birth registration is virtually complete at the national level.
Siow Li Lai, Nai Peng Tey
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Benefits of linking civil registration and vital statistics with identity management systems for measuring and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 indicators [PDF]
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019 A complete civil registration and vital statistics system is the best source of data for measuring most of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 indicators. However, civil registration does not include migration data, which are necessary for calculating the
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