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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, Frank Odhiambo, Erin Nichols, Sam Notzon, Carla AbouZahr, Raj Mitra, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Sonja Firth, Nicolas Maire, Osman Sankoh, Gay Bronson, Philip Setel, Peter Byass, Robert Jakob, Ties Boerma, Alan D. Lopez   +17 more
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How reliable are self-reported estimates of birth registration completeness? Comparison with vital statistics systems.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThe widely-used estimates of completeness of birth registration collected by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and published by UNICEF primarily rely on registration status of children as ...
Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez
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Cerevisterol Alleviates Inflammation via Suppression of MAPK/NF-κB/AP-1 and Activation of the Nrf2/HO-1 Signaling Cascade

Biomolecules, 2020
As part of our continuous effort to find potential anti-inflammatory agents from endophytic fungi, a Fusarium solani strain, isolated from the plant Aponogeton undulatus Roxb., was investigated. Cerevisterol (CRVS) was identified from endophytic fungi, a
Md Badrul Alam, Nargis Sultana Chowdhury, Md Hossain Sohrab, Md Sohel Rana, Choudhury Mahmood Hasan, Sang-Han Lee   +5 more
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Closing the birth registration gap for Every newborn facility birth: literature review and qualitative research

Global Health Action, 2023
Background Birth registration is vital to provide legal identity and access to essential services. Worldwide, approximately 166 million children under five years (just under 25%) are unregistered, yet >80% of all births occur in health facilities in most
Masudah Paleker, Dorothy Boggs, Debra Jackson, Louise-Tina Day, Joy E. Lawn   +4 more
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Protocol for analysing the epidemiology of maternal mortality in Zimbabwe: A civil registration and vital statistics trend study.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundSub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries the highest burden of maternal mortality, yet, the accurate maternal mortality ratios (MMR) are uncertain in most SSA countries.
Reuben Musarandega, Rhoderick Machekano, Robert Pattinson, Stephen Peter Munjanja, Zimbabwe Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Study (ZMPMS) group   +4 more
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Features of Formation of Radar-Tracking and Optical Images in a Mobile Test Stand of Radio-Vision Systems of a Car

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2023
In the report the features of formation of radar images (RI) and optical images (OI) in the mobile test stand of radiovision systems (RVS) of a car are presented.
Andrey Ananenkov, Anton Konovaltsev, Alexey Kukhorev, Vladimir Nujdin, Vladimir Rastorguev, Pavel Sokolov   +5 more
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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, Deirdre McLaughlin, Nicola Richards   +2 more
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The Decision Value Computations in the vmPFC and Striatum Use a Relative Value Code That is Guided by Visual Attention [PDF]

, 2011
There is a growing consensus in behavioral neuroscience that the brain makes simple choices by first assigning a value to the options under consideration and then comparing them.
Lim, Seung-Lark, O'Doherty, John P., Rangel, Antonio   +2 more
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How has COVID-19 impacted the civil registration and vital statistics system in Loreto, Perú? Evidence using process mapping and qualitative analysis

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives Accurate civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are the primary data source to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality.
John Hart, Tim Adair, Javier Silva-Valencia, Graciela Meza, Javier Vargas Herrera   +4 more
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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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