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Perinatal mental health : preparing the future nursing workforce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Perinatal mental health (PMH) problems occur during pregnancy and up to a year after giving birth. They can have a significant effect on the mother and family, and can affect the social, emotional and cognitive development of the child.
Health Education England, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Revising the WHO verbal autopsy instrument to facilitate routine cause-of-death monitoring

open access: yesGlobal 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   +38 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality of demographic data in GGS Wave 1

open access: yesDemographic 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obstacles to birth registration in Niger: estimates from a recent household survey

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Disparities in registration and use of an online patient portal among older adults: findings from the LitCog cohort [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
(C) The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved.Financial disclosure: This project was supported by the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG030611), the National ...
Alsabbagh   +49 more
core   +1 more source

An introduction to the civil registration and vital statistics systems with applications in low- and middle-income countries

open access: yesJournal 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway

open access: yesHistorical 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
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Linkage of Medical and Vital Registration Records [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1963
The desirability of being able to link two or more records of vital or medical events occurring to the same individual is largely self-evident. In clinical practice it is often informative to consult past records of hospital or other treatment and it is often useful to be able to locate subsequent records in order to follow up patients treated at some ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Reliable mortality statistics in Myanmar: a qualitative assessment of challenges in two townships

open access: yesBMC 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robust Registration of Calcium Images by Learned Contrast Synthesis

open access: yes, 2015
Multi-modal image registration is a challenging task that is vital to fuse complementary signals for subsequent analyses. Despite much research into cost functions addressing this challenge, there exist cases in which these are ineffective. In this work,
Bogovic, John A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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