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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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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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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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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Who gets counted? Understanding low female death registration in India. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundCivil 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 +3 more
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Measuring the completeness of death registration in 2844 Chinese counties in 2018 [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2020 Background Death registration completeness has never been assessed at the county level in China. Such analyses would provide critical intelligence to monitor the performance of the vital registration system and yield adjustment factors to correct death ...
Xinying Zeng +8 more
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Have inequalities in completeness of death registration between states in India narrowed during two decades of civil registration system strengthening? [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background In India the number of registered deaths increased substantially in recent years, improving the potential of the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system to be the primary source of mortality data and providing more families of ...
Jayanta Kumar Basu, Tim Adair
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Spatial disparities in death registration across states and districts of India, 2019-21 [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground The persistent issue of incomplete death registration in India, with a significant number of deaths going unrecorded, underscores the critical need for a granular understanding of spatial variations.
Aditya Singh +6 more
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