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Challenges to vital registration in Nigeria [PDF]

International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2021
The objective of this study was to investigate and reveal the socio-demographic factors affecting civil registration in Nigeria. The study employed the cross-sectional survey design. Instruments were administered to 600 participants sampled through a systematic random technique. SPSS (version 22) was used to analyze the data.
Atama Chiemezie, Igwe Ijeoma, Odii Aloysius, Igbo Emmanuel, Ezumah, Nkoli, Okeke Veronica, Okonwko Uche, Ugwu Chidi   +7 more
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Population perspectives and demographic methods to strengthen CRVS systems: introduction

Genus, 2022
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and legal identity systems have become increasingly recognized as catalytic both for inclusive development and for monitoring population dynamics spanning the entire life course.
Romesh Silva
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Assessment of the national and subnational completeness of death registration in Nepal

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Reliable and timely mortality data from a civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system are of crucial importance for generating evidence for policy and monitoring the progress towards national and global development goals.
Surender Prasad Pandey, Tim Adair
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REGISTRATION OF VITAL STATISTICS. [PDF]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1906
I feel that I may reasonably take for granted the validity of the principle that complete and trustworthy vital statistics are the very foundation of sanitary work and absolutely indispensable in the daily duties of officers of the public health. The means of obtaining such statistics were laid down in the "essential requirements" formulated some ...
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Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2012
Background: Verbal autopsy (VA) is the only available approach for determining the cause of many deaths, where routine certification is not in place. Therefore, it is important to use standards and methods for VA that maximise efficiency, consistency and
Peter Byass, Daniel Chandramohan, Samuel J. Clark, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Edward Fottrell, Wendy J. Graham, Abraham J. Herbst, Abraham Hodgson, Sennen Hounton, Kathleen Kahn, Anand Krishnan, Jordana Leitao, Frank Odhiambo, Osman A. Sankoh, Stephen M. Tollman   +14 more
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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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Automatic face alignment by maximizing similarity score [PDF]

, 2007
Accurate face registration is of vital importance to the performance of a face recognition algorithm. We propose a face registration method which searches for the optimal alignment by maximizing the score of a face recognition algorithm. In this paper we
Boom, Bas, Spreeuwers, Luuk, Veldhuis, Raymond   +2 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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