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Integrating Health and Civil Registration Data
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]In this interview with Edward Duffus of Plan International, he explains the value of integrating health system data with the civil registration process and explores tools for improving CRVS. -
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The Power of Death Statistics to Improve Lives
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Routine death statistics offer important data to identify new conditions and track success in reducing disease. Learn more from Prabhat Jha in this interview. -
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Capturing Cause of Deaths Outside Health Facilities Through Verbal Autopsies
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]In this video, Philip Setel of Vital Strategies describes how verbal autopsy can improve policy-making and planning in developing countries. -
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How Verbal Autopsies in India Helped to Inform Decision-making in Health Care
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Find out how verbal autopsies in India helped to inform decision-making in health care in this interview with Prabhat Jha of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. -
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How the Government of Uganda Strengthened its CRVS System
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Find out how one Ugandan hospital allows new parents to leave with their child’s birth certificate in-hand. Gopalan Balagopal explains why this is an effective way to increase birth registration -
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What if you didn’t have a birth certificate?
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]CRVS systems give people proof of their legal identity, age, and social relationships and enable access to essential public services including healthcare, education and social protection. -
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Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Systems: A Handbook of Indicators and their Measurement Strategies
[World Health Organization]This book is structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six core components or “building blocks." -
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Handbook on Civil Vital Registration and Statistics Systems Management, Operation and Maintenance
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides guidance to countries to improve their civil registration and vital statistics systems.
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Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Series M No. 19/Rev.3
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual provides a set of principles and recommendations on establishing a functioning system for collecting, processing, and disseminating vital statistics. -
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Handbook on Data Quality Assessment Methods and Tools
[European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Union]This book aims to facilitate a systematic implementation of data quality and assessments in the European Statistical System, and presents the most important assessment method for doing so.
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ESS Handbook for Quality Report, 2014 Edition
[European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Union]This book is the annual update of the European Statistical System's guidelines for the preparation of comprehensive quality reports commonly performed by Eurostat or national statistical offices.
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Handbook for Doctors on Cause-of-death Certification: Resources and Tools 1
[University of Melbourne]This handbook is designed for doctors to consult rapidly to easily to fill out death certificates.
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Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems, Studies in Methods. Series F, No. 84
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook is an important tool to develop, operate, and maintain a coordinated and interoperable environment between civil registration and vital statistics.
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Handbook of Vital Statistics Systems and Methods, Volume 1: Legal, Organisational and Technical Aspects, United Nations Studies in Methods, Glossary, Series F, No. 35
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook was developed to give special attention to the registration of vital events.
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The 'Rights' Start to Life
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report explores the situation of children who are denied the right of birth registration, and the connections between birth registration and access to the rights of the child. -
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Count Every Child: The Right to Birth Registration
[Plan International]This report offers in-depth information on Plan International's campaign to reduce under registration of children. It examines the issues and the impact of non-registration, and highlights the -
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Child Protection Issue Brief: Birth Registration
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This brief offers information about UNHCR's global strategy for improving birth registration rates and issuing legal documentation to prove identity. -
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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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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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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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National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 61, Number 3, United States Life Tables, 2008
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This report presents complete period life tables for the United States by race, Hispanic origin, and sex, based on age-specific death rates in 2008.
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National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 66, Number 3, United States Life Tables, 2013
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This report presents complete period life tables for the United States by race, Hispanic origin, and sex, based on age-specific death rates in 2013.
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National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 59, Number 10, Deaths: Final Data for 2008
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This report presents final 2008 data on U.S. deaths, death rates, life expectancy, infant mortality, and trends by characteristics such as age, sex, race, state of residence, and cause of death.
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Birth Registration and the Right of Everyone to Recognition Everywhere as a Person Before the Law
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]The report provide an overview of the global rates of birth registration, a universal human right recognized in a number of international instruments. It considers the consequences and impact of non -
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“No Mother Wants Her Child to Migrate” Vulnerability of Children on the Move in the Horn of Africa
[Innocenti Research Report UNICEF Office of Research]The report provide and insight into how migration and especially children's movement is driven by different motivation, exposes children to different forms of harm, an presents multiple barriers to
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.
A CRVS system is one that connects relevant data from the civil registry and the health information system for the purpose of producing vital statistics. In order to function well, CRVS systems depend on common elements. These are featured under a unique section of our library. Examples include resources that focus on training, assessments and evaluations, identity management, data security and privacy, information and communications technology, and more.