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Integration of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems [PDF]

, 2015
The initiative of a case study on Botswana’s successful integration of civil and identification registers comes against a backdrop of major continental and global efforts to accelerate improvement in the area of civil registration.
Republic of Botswana, World Bank
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Monitoring progress in reducing maternal mortality using verbal autopsy methods in vital registration systems: what can we conclude about specific causes of maternal death?

BMC Medicine, 2019
Reducing maternal mortality is a key focus of development strategies and one of the indicators used to measure progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Ian D. Riley, Riley H. Hazard, Rohina Joshi, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Alan D. Lopez   +4 more
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Estimating completeness of national and subnational death reporting in Brazil: application of record linkage methods

Population Health Metrics, 2020
Background In Brazil, both the Civil Registry (CR) and Ministry of Health (MoH) Mortality Information System (SIM) are sources of routine mortality data, but neither is 100% complete.
Luiz Fernando Lima Costa, Marli de Mesquita Silva Montenegro, Dacio de Lyra Rabello Neto, Antonio Tadeu Ribeiro de Oliveira, Jose Eduardo de Oliveira Trindade, Tim Adair, Maria de Fatima Marinho   +6 more
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The Need to Address Fragmentation and Silos in Mortality Information Systems: The Case of Ghana and Peru

International Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objectives: We aimed to understand the information architecture and degree of integration of mortality surveillance systems in Ghana and Peru.Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a combination of document review and unstructured interviews
Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Carmen Sant Fruchtman, Janet Miki, Javier Vargas-Herrera, Javier Vargas-Herrera, Sarah Woode, Fidelia A. A. Dake, Benjamin Clapham, Don De Savigny, Don De Savigny, Don De Savigny, Emmanuel Botchway   +13 more
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Multilevel analysis of individual- and community-level determinants of birth certification of children under-5 years in Nigeria: evidence from a household survey

BMC Public Health, 2022
Promoting birth certification is central to achieving legal identity for all - target 16.9 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Nigeria is not on track to achieve this goal with its low coverage of birth certification (BC).
Uchechi Shirley Anaduaka
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The Unseen Bedrock of Global Health Law: Putting Civil Registration and Vital Statistics at the Core of the Global Health Law Agenda

AJIL Unbound
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems comprise two interdependent components: civil registration (CR) and vital statistics (VS). Civil registration records the occurrence and characteristics of vital events in a population, including ...
Kriti Sharma, Margherita Melillo, Robert Eckford   +2 more
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Validation studies of verbal autopsy methods: a systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Verbal autopsy (VA) has emerged as an increasingly popular technique to assign cause of death in parts of the world where the majority of deaths occur without proper medical certification.
Buddhika P. K. Mahesh, John D. Hart, Ajay Acharya, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury, Rohina Joshi, Tim Adair, Riley H. Hazard   +6 more
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The Implementation of Bantu Warga Apps and Metabase for Spatial Data Processing In Surabaya

Rekayasa, 2023
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) is known as an essential supporting system for effective policy-making and service delivery. Its primary purpose is establishing an individual's legal identity and vital events to ensure all citizens get ...
Alfandino rasyid, Sritrusta Sukaridhoto, Muhammad Agus Zainuddin, Rizqi Putri Nourma Budiarti, Ubaidillah Zuhdi, Agus Imam Sonhaji, Yohanes Yohanie Fridelin Panduman, Luqmanul Hakim Iksan   +7 more
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Understanding non-communicable diseases: combining health surveillance with local knowledge to improve rural primary health care in South Africa

Global Health Action, 2021
Background: NCDs are non-infectious, long-term conditions that account for 40 million deaths per annum. 87% of premature NCD mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries.
Eilidh Cowan, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Maria van der Merwe, Sophie Witter, Peter Byass, Soter Ameh, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine   +7 more
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Generating cause of death information to inform health policy: implementation of an automated verbal autopsy system in the Solomon Islands

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Good quality cause of death (COD) information is fundamental for formulating and evaluating public health policy; yet most deaths in developing countries, including the Solomon Islands, occur at home without medical certification of cause of ...
Matthew Reeve, Hafizur Chowdhury, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, Gregory Jilini, Rooney Jagilly, Baakai Kamoriki, Rodley Ruskin, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D. Lopez   +8 more
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