A systematic review of vital events tracking by community health agents [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2019 Background: Efforts to improve national civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are focusing on transforming traditionally passive systems into active systems that have the ability to reach the household level.
Erin K. Nichols +4 more
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Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2022 Background Timely tracking of health outcomes is difficult in low- and middle-income countries without comprehensive vital registration systems. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly collecting vital events data while delivering routine care ...
Nandini Choudhury +18 more
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Strengthening Community Networks for Vital Event Reporting: Community-Based Reporting of Vital Events in Rural Mali. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Like many developing countries, Mali has few sources of mortality data. High quality mortality estimates are available from household surveys, such as the demographic and health surveys (DHS), approximately every five years, making it difficult to track ...
Melinda K Munos +6 more
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Using community-based reporting of vital events to monitor child mortality: Lessons from rural Ghana. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundReducing neonatal and child mortality is a key component of the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG), but most low and middle income countries lack data to monitor child mortality on an annual basis.
Stephane Helleringer +9 more
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Registration of family vital events in a conflict-induced displacement setting [PDF]
Population Health MetricsBackground In many low- and middle-income countries, the registration of family-related vital events (marriages and births) remains incomplete, with consequences for women’s and their children’s ability to exercise fundamental rights. In humanitarian and
Orsola Torrisi +8 more
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Linking vital events to census records for accurate and efficient large-scale population reconstruction [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceCertificates of birth, death, and marriage provide information about key vital events in people's lives. Census records, on the other hand, provide snapshots of individuals, families, and households at certain points in time.
Sumayya Ziyad +2 more
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Federated Learning for Clinical Event Classification Using Vital Signs Data
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2023 Accurate and timely diagnosis is a pillar of effective healthcare. However, the challenge lies in gathering extensive training data while maintaining patient privacy. This study introduces a novel approach using federated learning (FL) and a cross-device
Ruzaliev Rakhmiddin, KangYoon Lee
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Vital sign-based Early Warning Scores in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of clinical effectiveness and implementation challenges [PDF]
Global Health ActionEarly recognition of clinically deteriorating patients may improve patient outcomes. Early warning scores (EWS) are widely used in high-income settings, but their effectiveness in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains uncertain.
Niels Jig Jansen, Lars Ingmar Veldhuis
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Resuscitation PlusAim: Although early detection of patients’ deterioration may improve outcomes, most of the detection criteria use on-the-spot values of vital signs. We investigated whether adding trend values over time enhanced the ability to predict adverse events ...
Rimi Tanii +6 more
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Mortality statistics in India: Current status and future prospects
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 When plague epidemics swept India in the second half of the 19th century, there was an epidemiological need for mortality statistics; as a result, vital event registration systems were established.
Rajesh Kumar
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