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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Motivations and barriers to death registration in Dakar, Senegal
Genus, 2021 Strengthening civil registration systems requires a better understanding of motivations and barriers related to the registration of deaths. We used data from the 2013 Senegalese census to identify deaths that are more likely to be registered in the Dakar
Atoumane Fall +4 more
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‘A confession of ignorance’ : deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855–1949 [PDF]
, 2015 A large amount of the research undertaken in an attempt to discover the reasons underlying the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mortality decline in Britain has relied on the statistics published by the Registrars General.
Reid, A +7 more
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Death Registration System in I.R.Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2009 "nDeath and disease information are key information in priority setting. Because importance of valid and reliable mortality data, death registration system in I.R.Iran as a multi source registration system was established and improved from 1998.
N Jafari, MJ Kabir, ME Motlagh
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International completeness of death registration [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Death registration completeness, the share of deaths captured by countries’ vital registration systems, vary substantially across countries.
Ariel Karlinsky
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A comprehensive assessment of the impact of errors in the cancer registration process on 1- and 5-year relative survival estimates. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: When making international comparisons of cancer survival, it is essential reported differences are real effects and not an artefact of potential errors in cancer registration. METHODS: We use simulation methods to assess the impact of various
Rutherford, MJ +8 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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Variational image registration using inhomogeneous regularization [PDF]
, 2014 We present a generalization of the convolution basedvariational image registration approach, in which differentregularizers can be implemented by conveniently exchangingthe convolution kernel, even if it is nonseparableor nonstationary.
Albrecht, Thomas +4 more
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