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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.
Don de Savigny, Ian Riley, Daniel Chandramohan   +2 more
exaly   +7 more sources

Population perspectives and demographic methods to strengthen CRVS systems: introduction

Genus, 2022
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and legal identity systems have become increasingly recognized as catalytic both for inclusive development and for monitoring population dynamics spanning the entire life course.
Romesh Silva
exaly   +2 more sources

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
Timothy Adair, Nicola C Richards, Alan D Lopez   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Reducing ignorance about who dies of what: research and innovation to strengthen CRVS systems

BMC Medicine, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda offers a major impetus to consolidate and accelerate development in civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. Strengthening CRVS systems is an SDG outcome in itself.
Alan D Lopez, Nicola C Richards
exaly   +3 more sources

Better data for better outcomes: the importance of process mapping and management in CRVS systems

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Despite attempts to apply standard methods proven to work in high-income nations, nearly all civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle-income countries are failing to achieve adequate levels of registration ...
Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Don de Savigny, John D Hart   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Causes of death from community settings: insights from verbal autopsy implementation in Tanzania [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
Background Approximately 70% of deaths in Tanzania occur outside health facilities and are often unreported or lack cause of death (COD) information. Consequently, health planning relies on data representing only 10%–15% of the population.
Sigilbert Mrema, Honorati Masanja, Mahadia Tunga, Isaac Lyatuu, Gisbert Msigwa, Joyce Mugasa, Trust Nyondo, Claud Kumalija   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Who gets counted? Understanding low female death registration in India. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundCivil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems are essential for governance, public health, and achieving SDGs however, gender gaps limit women's access to rights and services, with under-registration of female vital events reinforcing ...
Sheetal Verma, Ritul Kamal, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, Mrigesh Bhatia   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Incompleteness and Misclassification of Maternal Deaths in Zimbabwe: Data from Two Reproductive Age Mortality Surveys, 2007–2008 and 2018–2019 [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Introduction We implemented two cross-sectional reproductive age mortality surveys in 2007–2008 and 2018–2019 to assess changes in the MMR and causes of death in Zimbabwe.
Reuben Musarandega, Lennarth Nystrom, Grant Murewanhema, Chipo Gwanzura, Solwayo Ngwenya, Robert Pattinson, Rhoderick Machekano, Stephen Peter Munjanja, and the Zimbabwe Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Study Group   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Establishment of a centralized civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) database in Pakistan: a healthcare perspective

Discover Public Health
A reliable civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system is crucial for public health, demographic analysis, and government planning. The United Nations defines a vital statistics system as encompassing legal registration, statistical reporting ...
Zainab Alvi, Ali Akram Qureshi, Waqas Danish, Luqman Munir   +3 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Strengthening Cause of Death Statistics in Selected Districts of 3 States in India: Protocol for an Uncontrolled, Before-After, Mixed Method Study

JMIR Research Protocols
BackgroundMortality statistics are vital for health policy development, epidemiological research, and health care service planning.
Ashoo Grover, Saritha Nair, Saurabh Sharma, Shefali Gupta, Suyesh Shrivastava, Pushpendra Singh, Srikanta Kanungo, Senthanro Ovung, Charan Singh, Abdul Mabood Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Subrata Kumar Palo, Tapas Chakma, Anjali Bajaj   +13 more
doaj   +2 more sources