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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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Strengthening National CRVS Systems Using Public Health Campaigns
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Nadya Kassam, formerly with the United Nations Children’s Fund, describes how linking birth registration with immunization or nutrition campaigns can dramatically improve birth registration. -
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CRVS systems protect human rights and empower the vulnerable
[Centre of Excellence for CRVS Systems]This video explains how strong CRVS systems protect human rights and support inclusive development for all. -
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Webinar: Visualizing the Invisible: Registering deaths and tracking mortality in the era of COVID-19
[Vital Strategies]In this World Data Forum 2020 session, learn from country experiences in counting deaths and tracking mortality during a health emergency such as COVID-19. Organized by Vital Strategies, the World -
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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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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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ICD-10, Instruction Manual, Part 9
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics]This is a detailed and comprehensive instruction manual for tabulation of mortality statistics.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems, Developing Information, Education and Communication
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook offers guidance on how to design and carry out information, education, and communication activities to improve programs for civil registration and vital statistics agencies.
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Guidelines and Template for Developing a Vital Statistics Report
[Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)]This document is a guidance tool for producing vital statistics reports from civil registration systems. It is intended especially for countries that have little or no prior experience with preparing -
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Use of Community Health Data for Shared Accountability
[United States Agency for International Development and Measure Evaluation]A guidance document, brief, and PowerPoint presentation for use by country ministries of health (MOHs), local government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, and community leaders to -
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Production of a Vital Statistics Guide, Rev. 1
[United Nations Economic Commision for Asia and the Pacific]The purpose of this Guide and the files it accompanies, hereinafter referred to as the resource kit, is to enable the production of vital statistics reports, primarily using civil registration data
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