Death registration in Nigeria: a systematic literature review of its performance and challenges [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2020 Background Death registration provides an opportunity for the legal documentation of death of persons. Documentation of deaths has several implications including its use in the recovery of inheritance and insurance benefits. It is also an important input
Olusesan Ayodeji Makinde +9 more
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Estimating the completeness of death registration: An empirical method. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Many national and subnational governments need to routinely measure the completeness of death registration for monitoring and statistical purposes. Existing methods, such as death distribution and capture-recapture methods, have a number of limitations ...
Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez
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Prevalence and determinants of death registration and certification uptake in Uganda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Death registration in Uganda remains extremely low, yet mortality statistics are vital in health policy, planning, resource allocation and decision-making.
Leonard K Atuhaire +4 more
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Assessment of the national and subnational completeness of death registration in Nepal [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Reliable and timely mortality data from a civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system are of crucial importance for generating evidence for policy and monitoring the progress towards national and global development goals.
Surender Prasad Pandey, Tim Adair
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The contribution of social norms and religious practices towards low death registration in 3 HDSS sites of Uganda [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Uganda has low levels of death registration, estimated at two per cent by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA). There are 56 tribes and over 5 religious denominations with so many social norms and religious practices ...
Gilbert Habaasa
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Birth, stillbirth and death registration data completeness, quality and utility in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2021 Background Birth registration is a child’s first right. Registration of live births, stillbirths and deaths is foundational for national planning. Completeness of birth registration for live births in low- and middle-income countries is measured through ...
Simon Kasasa +17 more
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Spatial analysis of completeness of death registration in Egypt [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, 2020 Purpose Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems should be the primary source of routine mortality data. However, there is lack of information about the completeness of death registration at the sub-national level of Egypt.
Nesma Lotfy
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Adult death registration in Matlab, rural Bangladesh: completeness, correlates, and obstacles [PDF]
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 +3 more
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Death registration and certification in Ghana. [PDF]
Ghana Med JDeath registration and certification are inexorably connected, as death certification provides the data that form the bedrock for accurate death registration. In Ghana, registration of all deaths is required by law, governed by the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 2020 (Act 1027).1 Sections 29, 30 and 31 of Act 1027 deal directly with certificates
Wiredu EK.
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