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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
doaj   +1 more source

Innovations in Monitoring Vital Events:Mobile Phone SMS Support to Improve Coverage of Birth and Death Registration: A Scalable Solution [PDF]

, 2013
Civil Registration (CR) of births and deaths is an essential component of any health information system.\ud Globally, across low income countries, CR suffers from unacceptably poor quality coverage.
Kabadi, Gregory, Mwanyika, Henry, Savigny, Don de   +2 more
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Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

APPJ [PDF]

, 2014
The current status of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in Asia and the Pacific is described in this paper. Civil registration is an administrative system for recording the occurrence and characteristics of vital events (notably ...
UN.ESCAP
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What is wrong with non-respondents? Alcohol-, drug- and smoking related mortality and morbidity in a 12-year follow up study of respondents and non-respondents in the Danish Health and Morbidity Survey [PDF]

, 2015
Aim: Response rates in health surveys have diminished over the last two decades, making it difficult to obtain reliable information on health and health-related risk factors in different population groups.
Christensen, Anne Illemann, Ekholm, Ola, Glümer, Charlotte, Gray, Linsay, Juel, Knud   +4 more
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli, Davide Calandra, Federico Lanzalonga, Paolo Biancone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Energy Corporations and Climate Change: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Shaping Climate Change Risk Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines climate change risk disclosure in the global energy sector, where firms face intense stakeholder scrutiny and legitimacy pressures. We develop a novel domain‐specific textual analysis measure to capture climate change risk disclosures, improving on prior approaches based on generic environmental terminology.
Khaldoon Albitar, Ali Meftah Gerged
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal mortality decline in Zimbabwe, 2007/2008 to 2018/2019: findings from mortality surveys using civil registration, vital statistics and health system data

BMJ Global Health, 2022
Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.1 target is to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births by 2030. In the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality strategy, a supplementary target
, Jenny Cresswell, Robert Pattinson, Gwendoline Kandawasvika, Aveneni Mangombe, Bernard Madzima, Thulani Magwali, Stephen Munjanja, Gwendoline Chimhini, Lennarth Nyström, Agnes Mahomva, Reuben Musarandega, Davidzoyashe Makosa, Rhoderick Machekano, Solwayo Ngwenya, Maxwell Chirehwa, Eunice Tahuringana, Margaret Nyandoro, Esther Ngaru, Tsitsi Magure, Nhamo Gona, Vongai Dondo, Ronald Mataya, Bothwell Guzha, Jonathan Kasule, Taurai Gunguwo, Sarah Manyame, Julius Chirengwa, Velda Mushangwe, Michael Nyakura, Gerald Madziyire, Sunhurai Mukwambo, McMillan Parirenyatwa, Lucia Gondongwe, Chipo Chimamise, Winston Chirombe, Grace Chaora, Enesia Ziki, Mercy Gaza, Chipo Gwanzura, Admire Chikutiro, Rumbidzai Makoni, Grant Murewanhema   +42 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of civil registration and vital statistics system in the Maldives: Focus on mortality statistics

Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2020
An efficient Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system is a development imperative. Data on death registration and causes of death are important for measuring health outcomes. This paper evaluates the completeness and quality of data on death registration and causes of death (CoD) based on analysis of the registration records on death and ...
Usman, Sofoora Kawsar, Moosa, Sheena
openaire   +1 more source

Social Accounting for Work‐Related Injuries: Towards a Sustainable Management of Social Externalities

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study seeks to advance the understanding of the determinants of occupational injuries, thereby enhancing both academic knowledge and decision‐making in the management and implementation of occupational health and safety measures.
Rosa María Cañaveras Perea, Ángel Tejada Ponce, María Pilar Sánchez González   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source