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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
[United Nations]The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 (1) describes the rights of all individuals to adequate health and wellbeing, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.
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Innovative Tools and OpenHDS for Health and Demographic Surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
[BioMed Central Research Notes]This article describes the testing of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in a community in Kenya. -
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Medical Certification of Cause of Death
[Medical Journal, Armed Forces India ]This article provides compelling justification for the importance of accurate reporting of causes of death. -
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Improving Public Health Information: A Data Quality Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
[World Health Organization]This article assesses the results of the effort to improve health information in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Assessing the Reliability of Hospital-based Cause-of-death Statistics: Evidence-based Guidelines for Country Application
[University of Queensland, School of Population Health]This report provides findings from a large number of studies that have used medical record reviews to validate the cause of death reported.
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What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness
[PLOS Medicine]This article discusses the evaluation of 234 variants of death distribution methods in three different validation environments, and demonstrates the application of optimal variants.
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The Health System Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual
[United States Agency for International Development]The HSSA is a comprehensive tool to diagnose the performance of health systems and to capture system-wide information to better inform health sector planning. -
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Better Health Intelligence: A New Era for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics?
[BMC Medicine]That reliable, timely, and relevant information can play an important role in improving the health of populations is unequivocal. Good, or better, health outcomes are greatly influenced by informed -
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Digital Health Vision: Could MomConnect Provide a Pragmatic Starting Point for Achieving Universal Health Coverage in South Africa and Elsewhere?
[BMJ Global Health]In South Africa MomConnect has achieved unprecedented coverage of pregnant women through registering over 1.5 million pregnant women, which over 3 years accounts for approximately 60% of this target -
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Framework and strategy for integrated monitoring and evaluation of child health programmes for responsive programming, accountability, and impact
[The BMJ]The article discusses the challenges created by the fragmentation of the current monitoring and evaluation systems and suggest solutions. The authors used data mainly from the Integrated Management of -
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Improving public health and health systems through evidence informed policy in the Americas
[The BMJ]This article identifies challenges and limitations that hinder efforts to link research to policy action at the country level. These challenges can be grouped into three main areas: the sociopolitical -
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Buy, Build, or Adapt, How to decide? A Guide to Open Source Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
[Inter-American development Bank]This report is for those who want to learn more about open source software (OSS) and the benefits of its use in health care, with particular emphasis on electronic health records (EHRs). It describes -
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Thriving beyond survival:Understanding utilization of perinatal health services as predictors of birth registration: A cross-sectional study
[BMC International Health and Human rights]This article is the result of researching ways to best leverage existing health system-related resources and ensure greater protective measures for unregistered and vulnerable children. The study -
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Associations between birth registration and early child growth and development: Evidence from 31 low- and middle-income countries
[BMC Public health]This article investigates the association between not having a birth certificate and young children’s physical growth and developmental outcomes in low- and middle income countries by using data from -
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Does birth under-registration reduce childhood immunization? Evidence from the Dominican Republic
[Health Economics Review]This paper to sheds light on the effect of birth under-registration on health access. Childhood immunizations, a key component of health care services, are intended to be administered to all children -
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The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008)
[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]The Paris Declaration (2005) is a practical, action-oriented roadmap to improve the quality of aid and its impact on development. The Accra Agenda for Action (2008) takes stock of progress and sets -
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Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
[United Nations Statistics Division]This publication lays out the principles to ensure that official statistics can respond to changes in the political, economic, social, and technological environments for a statistical agency.
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Principles Governing International Statistical Activities
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page lists the principles and good practices endorsed by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities. -
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International Statistical Institute (ISI) Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms
[International Statistical Institute]The ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms translates more than 3,500 statistical terms into 31 languages. -
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Population and Vital Statistics. Statistical Papers, Series A, Vol. LXVIII
[United Nations Statistics Division]This issue presents data from the latest available census, such as estimated total population and number and rate of vital events for the latest available year within the past 15 years (2000-2014).
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Age Adjustment Using the 2000 Projected U.S. Population
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This statistical note describes several sets of age-adjustment weights based on the year 2000 projected U.S. population. -
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National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 57, Number 7, Births: Final Data for 2006
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This report presents 2006 data on U.S. births according to characteristics such as age, live-birth order, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, education, maternal lifestyle, and health.
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Issues in the Use of Administrative Records for Statistical Purposes
[Statistics Canada]The article discusses obstacles to greater use of administrative records, as well as concern regarding information protection and record linkage.
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Interim Measures for Meeting Needs for Health Sector Data: Births, Deaths, and Causes of Death
[The Lancet]This article discusses improvements in measuring vital statistics. It also points to the urgent need to meet challenges for accurate vital statistics.
Our Resource Library provides access to curated resources related to CRVS systems, including research, tools, publications, CRVS eLearning course, our Expert Talks video series, and a glossary of terms and definitions.
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