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Enhancing community death notification in Uganda using a hackathon based approach to integrate mortality surveillance into the electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Uganda faces persistent weaknesses in mortality surveillance, particularly in the notification of community deaths, which are frequently under-ascertained.
Jimmy Patrick Alunyo, Martin Bulamu, Sarah Racheal Akello, Mariam Nambuya, Paul Edward Okello, Enock Tuhereze, Joseph Kitumba, Robert Kato, Nicholas Isabirye, Bwire Godfrey, Allan Muruta, Caroline Kyozira   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability [PDF]

Lancet, The, 2015
Alan D. Lopez, Carla AbouZahr, Erin K Nichols   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Structural, economic, and socio-cultural barriers to birth and death registration in Iran: a qualitative study [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems are fundamental to health governance, social protection, and evidence-based policymaking.
Khadijeh Asadisarvestani
doaj   +2 more sources

Awareness and Compliance in the Civil Registration of Residents in a Municipality of Negros Occidental

Philippine Social Science Journal, 2020
Civil registration is a continuous procedure, which aims to establish permanent records of individual vital events from the day it was born to the day it dies.
Jeremy G. Celeste, Romeo R. Tinagan
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating causes of death where there is no medical certification: evolution and state of the art of verbal autopsy

Global Health Action, 2021
Over the past 70 years, significant advances have been made in determining the causes of death in populations not served by official medical certification of cause at the time of death using a technique known as Verbal Autopsy (VA).
Daniel Chandramohan, Edward Fottrell, Jordana Leitao, Erin Nichols, Samuel J. Clark, Carine Alsokhn, Daniel Cobos Munoz, Carla AbouZahr, Aurelio Di Pasquale, Robert Mswia, Eungang Choi, Frank Baiden, Jason Thomas, Isaac Lyatuu, Zehang Li, Patrick Larbi-Debrah, Yue Chu, Samuel Cheburet, Osman Sankoh, Azza Mohamed Badr, Doris Ma Fat, Philip Setel, Robert Jakob, Don de Savigny   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Snapshot of civil registration and vital statistics systems of Tunisia [PDF]

, 2020
A dedicated Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) committee aims at improving the quality of statistics on civil status in Tunisia.
Đoković, Zoran
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source