Building Capacity for Mortality Statistics Programs: Perspectives from the Indonesian Experience
Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2019 Information on deaths by age, sex, and cause are primary inputs for health policy and epidemiological research. Currently, most developing countries lack efficient death registration systems that generate these data on a routine and timely basis.
Chalapati Rao +4 more
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Gender disparities in death registration during the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban African setting [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the completeness of death registration is lower among women, hampering accurate monitoring of health and mortality, gender equality, and rights.
Orsola Torrisi +5 more
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Physician reports of medication use with explicit intention of hastening the end of life in the absence of explicit patient request in general practice in Belgium [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Although the incidence of the use of life-ending drugs without explicit patient request has been estimated in several studies, in-depth empirical research on this controversial practice is nonexistent.
Meeussen, Koen +5 more
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The Network Survival Method for Estimating Adult Mortality: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Rwanda. [PDF]
, 2017 Adult death rates are a critical indicator of population health and well-being. Wealthy countries have high-quality vital registration systems, but poor countries lack this infrastructure and must rely on estimates that are often problematic.
Feehan, Dennis M +2 more
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Producing valid statistics when legislation, culture, and medical practices differ for births at or before the threshold of survival: Report of a European workshop [PDF]
, 2019 To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field or click on the hyperlink at the top of the page marked ...
Alexander, S. +40 more
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Coverage of death registration in a rural district of Sri Lanka
Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2001 Objective: To assess the coverage of death registration in a rural district of Sri Lanka. Methodology: All deaths that occurred during the year preceding the study were identified through a household survey.
Ajith Fonseka, Dulitha Fernando
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The Truth About Voter Fraud [PDF]
, 2007 Allegations of election-related fraud make for enticing press. Many Americans remember vivid stories of voting improprieties in Chicagoland, or the suspiciously sudden appearance of LBJ's alphabetized ballot box in Texas, or Governor Earl Long's quip ...
Justin Levitt
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Public Health Reviews, 2022 Objectives: Considering the aspiration embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind by 2030, civil registration and vital statistics systems have an essential role in providing reliable, up-to-date information to monitor the ...
Rebeca Revenga Becedas +8 more
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BIRTH, STILLBIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1926 W HAT is necessary to secure satisfactory registration? This question has been solved in part by the practical procedure of Illinois which raised its state birth records in degree of completeness from 60 per cent in 1918 to approximately 95 per cent in 1922, when it was admitted into the birth registration area of the United States.
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The effect of tranexamic acid on the risk of death and hysterectomy in women with post-partum haemorrhage: statistical analysis plan for the WOMAN trial. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Severe haemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Most haemorrhage deaths occur soon after childbirth. Severe post-partum bleeding is sometimes managed by the surgical removal of the uterus (hysterectomy).
Alfirevic, Zarko +5 more
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