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Saving lives through certifying deaths: assessing the impact of two interventions to improve cause of death data in Perú

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Mortality statistics derived from cause of death data are an important source of information for population health monitoring, priority setting and planning.
Janet Miki, Rasika Rampatige, Nicola Richards, Tim Adair, Juan Cortez-Escalante, Javier Vargas-Herrera   +5 more
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Obstacles to birth registration in Niger: estimates from a recent household survey

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
Despite progress made towards increasing birth registration rates over the last dozen years, almost one in two children may still not get registered at birth in Niger according to a recent nationally representative household survey.
Quentin Wodon, Ali Yedan
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Addressing critical knowledge and capacity gaps to sustain CRVS system development

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems requires strengthening the capacity of the CRVS workforce. The improvement of data collection and diagnostic practices must be accompanied by efforts to ensure that the workforce
Tim Adair, Nicola Richards, Avita Streatfield, Megha Rajasekhar, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D. Lopez   +5 more
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Deficiency in civil registration and vital statistics reporting in remote areas: the case of Sabah, Malaysia

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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Adult death registration in Matlab, rural Bangladesh: completeness, correlates, and obstacles

Genus, 2021
Civil registration of vital events such as deaths and births is a key part of the process of securing rights and benefits for individuals worldwide. It also enables the production of vital statistics for local planning of social services.
M. Moinuddin Haider, Nurul Alam, Mamun Ibn Bashar, Stéphane Helleringer   +3 more
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Economic analysis of producing vital statistics using civil registration data in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
The government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is currently in the preparation stage of a 5-year project that will establish an electronic civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system.
Samuel Mills, Daniel Amponsah
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Where there is no hospital: improving the notification of community deaths

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Globally, an estimated two-thirds of all deaths occur in the community, the majority of which are not attended by a physician and remain unregistered.
Tim Adair, Megha Rajasekhar, Khin Sandar Bo, John Hart, Viola Kwa, Md. Ashfaqul Amin Mukut, Matthew Reeve, Nicola Richards, Margarita Ronderos-Torres, Don de Savigny, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Alan D. Lopez   +11 more
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Examining sex differences in the completeness of Peruvian CRVS data and adult mortality estimates

Genus, 2022
The production, compilation, and publication of death registration records is complex and usually involves many institutions. Assessing available data and the evolution of the completeness of the data compiled based on demographic techniques and other ...
Helena Cruz Castanheira, José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva   +1 more
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Mortality statistics in India: Current status and future prospects

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022
When plague epidemics swept India in the second half of the 19th century, there was an epidemiological need for mortality statistics; as a result, vital event registration systems were established.
Rajesh Kumar
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A multisectoral institutional arrangements approach to integrating civil registration, vital statistics, and identity management systems

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
This paper reviews the essential components of a recommended institutional arrangements framework of integrated civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) and civil identification systems.
Samuel Mills, Jane Kim Lee, Bahie Mary Rassekh   +2 more
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