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Saving lives through certifying deaths: assessing the impact of two interventions to improve cause of death data in Perú

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Mortality statistics derived from cause of death data are an important source of information for population health monitoring, priority setting and planning.
Janet Miki, Rasika Rampatige, Nicola Richards, Tim Adair, Juan Cortez-Escalante, Javier Vargas-Herrera   +5 more
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International completeness of death registration [PDF]

Demographic Research
BACKGROUND: Death registration completeness, the share of deaths captured by countries’ vital registration systems, vary substantially across countries.
Ariel Karlinsky
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Decentralization of birth registration to Local Government in Tanzania: the association with completeness of birth registration and certification

Global Health Action, 2020
Background In Tanzania only an estimated one-quarter of births are registered and certified. Birth registration uses a centralized system with geographic and cost barriers for families. A pilot decentralized birth registration system has been trialled in
Christopher Sanga, Gregory Kabadi, Emilian Karugendo, Don de Savigny, Daniel Cobos Muñoz, Tim Adair   +5 more
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Estimation of national and subnational all-cause mortality indicators in Nepal, 2017

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Despite the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system in Nepal operating for several decades, it has not been used to produce routine mortality statistics.
Surender Prasad Pandey, Tim Adair
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Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring

Global Health Action, 2013
Objective: Verbal autopsy (VA) is a systematic approach for determining causes of death (CoD) in populations without routine medical certification. It has mainly been used in research contexts and involved relatively lengthy interviews.
Jordana Leitao, Daniel Chandramohan, Peter Byass, Robert Jakob, Kanitta Bundhamcharoen, Chanpen Choprapawon, Don de Savigny, Edward Fottrell, Elizabeth França, Frederik Frøen, Gihan Gewaifel, Abraham Hodgson, Sennen Hounton, Kathleen Kahn, Anand Krishnan, Vishwajeet Kumar, Honorati Masanja, Erin Nichols, Francis Notzon, Mohammad Hafiz Rasooly, Osman Sankoh, Paul Spiegel, Carla Abouzahr, Marc Amexo, Derege Kebede, William Soumbey Alley, Fatima Marinho, Mohamed Ali, Enrique Loyola, Jyotsna Chikersal, Jun Gao, Giuseppe Annunziata, Rajiv Bahl, Kidist Bartolomeus, Ties Boerma, Bedirhan Ustun, Doris Chou, Lulu Muhe, Matthews Mathai   +38 more
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Quality of demographic data in GGS Wave 1

Demographic Research, 2015
Background: A key feature of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) is that longitudinal micro-data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) can be combined with indicators from the Contextual Database (CDB) that provide information on the macro ...
Jorik Vergauwen, Jonas Wood, David De Wachter, Karel Neels   +3 more
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Obstacles to birth registration in Niger: estimates from a recent household survey

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
Despite progress made towards increasing birth registration rates over the last dozen years, almost one in two children may still not get registered at birth in Niger according to a recent nationally representative household survey.
Quentin Wodon, Ali Yedan
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An introduction to the civil registration and vital statistics systems with applications in low- and middle-income countries

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
In collaboration with development partners, the World Bank Group (WBG) has been working to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in low- and middle-income countries through lending operations, technical assistance projects ...
Samuel Mills, Jane Kim Lee, Bahie Mary Rassekh   +2 more
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Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway

Historical Life Course Studies, 2021
Since 1947 there has been a common understanding among Norwegian historians and demographers that stillbirths registered in the country prior to 1839 included infants who were born alive but died within 24 hours. This paper shows that a revision of this
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Reliable mortality statistics in Myanmar: a qualitative assessment of challenges in two townships

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background The vital registration system is universally recognized as the main source of mortality data which is essential for policy formulation, proper interventions and resource allocation to address priority health challenges. To improve availability
Myitzu Tin Oung, Kerry Richter, Pramote Prasartkul, Yadanar Aung, Kyaw Thu Soe, Thuzar Chit Tin, Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +6 more
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