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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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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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 Reducing 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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Strengthening Community-Based Vital Events Reporting for Real-Time Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality: Lessons Learned from the Balaka and Salima Districts in Malawi [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Background Malawi ratified a compulsory birth and death registration system in 2009. Until it captures complete coverage of vital events, Malawi relies on other data sources to calculate mortality estimates. We tested a community-based method to estimate
Olga Joos +6 more
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Immunization programmes and notifications of vital events [PDF]
Bull World Health Organ, 2019 Immunization programmes and notifications of vital events Gustavo Corrêa, Philippe Verstraete, Riswana Soundardjee, Manjari Shankar, Colin Paterson, Lee Hampton, Debra Jackson, Maria Muniz, Remy Mwamba, Kristen Wenz, Martin W Bratschi, Carla AbouZahr ...
Gustavo Caetano Correa +12 more
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Transcriptomes of Marssonina brunnea and Infected Poplar Leaves to Capture Vital Events in Host-Pathogen Interactions [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 BACKGROUND Understanding host-pathogen interaction mechanisms helps to elucidate the entire infection process and focus on important events, and it is a promising approach for improvement of disease control and selection of treatment strategy.
Chengwen Chen +9 more
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Identification of physiological adverse events using continuous vital signs monitoring during paediatric critical care transport: A novel data-driven approach. [PDF]
PLOS Digital HealthInterhospital transport of critically unwell children exacerbates physiological stress, increasing the risk of deterioration during transport. Due to the nature of illness and interventions occurring in this cohort, defining "normal" vital sign ranges is
Milan Kapur +6 more
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2005 Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation.
Philip W. Setel +8 more
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Surveillance Of Vital Events In Rural Areas
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 1998 Research question: Which system of registration of vital events is more efficient? Objective: To ascertain the efficiency and quality of vital events registration in the rural community. Study design: Population based cross-sectional.
Lal Sunder +4 more
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