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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, Nina W. Ragunanthan, Braveen Ragunanthan, Hermon Gebrehiwet, Karim Kamara   +4 more
doaj   +6 more sources

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, Alain K Koffi, Hamadoun Sangho, Mariam Guindo Traoré, Masseli Diakité, Romesh Silva, Mali RMM Working Group   +6 more
doaj   +5 more sources

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, Aparna Tiwari, Wan-Ju Wu, Ved Bhandari, Laxman Bhatta, Bhawana Bogati, David Citrin, Scott Halliday, Sonu Khadka, Nutan Marasini, Sachit Pandey, Madeleine Ballard, Hari Jung Rayamazi, Sabitri Sapkota, Ryan Schwarz, Lisa Sullivan, Duncan Maru, Aradhana Thapa, Sheela Maru   +18 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Daniel Arhinful, Benjamin Abuaku, Michael Humes, Emily Wilson, Andrew Marsh, Adrienne Clermont, Robert E Black, Jennifer Bryce, Agbessi Amouzou   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Kumar Vijay, Vashisht B.M. Singh, Malik J.S, Punia M.S   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

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, Osman Sankoh, Chalapati Rao, Victoria A. Velkoff, Colin Mathers, Yang Gonghuan, Yusuf Hemed, Prabhat Jha, Alan D. Lopez   +8 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Immunization programmes and notifications of vital events. [PDF]

Bull World Health Organ, 2019
Corrêa G, Verstraete P, Soundardjee R, Shankar M, Paterson C, Hampton L, Jackson D, Muniz M, Mwamba R, Wenz K, Bratschi MW, AbouZahr C, Johnson H.   +12 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Impact of dynamic parameter of trends in vital signs on the prediction of serious events in hospitalized patients -a retrospective observational study

Resuscitation Plus
Aim: 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, Kuniyoshi Hayashi, Takaki Naito, Zoie Shui-Yee Wong, Toru Yoshida, Koichi Hayashi, Shigeki Fujitani   +6 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The role of vital exhaustion in predicting the recurrence of vascular events: A longitudinal study

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the role of vital exhaustion in predicting the recurrence of vascular events.The sample comprised of 816 individuals (65.3% female, M age  = 43.2 years, SD = 14.7 years), 395 (48.4%) of whom reported treatment for the reoccurrence of a vascular event during the four-year follow-up period.
Piroska Balog, Barna Konkoly Thege
exaly   +3 more sources