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Dictionary for Civil Registration and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]A technical dictionary of terms relating to civil registration and identification. -
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Toward Universal Birth Registration: A Systemic Approach to the Application of ICT
[Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations Children's Fund]This publication provides an analysis and checklists for the legal, administrative, and technological requirements for the use of information and communications technology for birth registration. -
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Birth Registration and Armed Conflict
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report draws attention to the particularly precarious conditions for birth registration in areas of armed conflict.
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Birth Registration: Right from the Start
[United Nations Children's Fund]This book examines the situation of children whose births have not been registered by exploring obstacles to universal registration and identifying actions to combat late or non birth registration.
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Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency, Sixth Edition
[National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics]While this book is written about the U.S. federal statistical agencies, the four principles of relevance, credibility, trust, and independence are common to all statistical agencies. -
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Civil Registry and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]This web page contains information on an IADB-financed project in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as links to publications, CRVS information by country, articles, and publications.
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Gender Discrimination, Racial Discrimination and Women's Human Rights
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]This web page calls attention to the negative impacts of discrimination against women and girls in the context of racism and racial discrimination.
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Indicator Metadata Registry: WHO Mortality Database
[World Health Organization]This web page provide access to the WHO mortality database.
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Coverage of Birth and Death Registration
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page provides the results of the UNSD's global monitoring of civil registration and vital statistics.
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Analysing Mortality Levels and Causes-of-death (ANACoD)
[World Health Organization]This web page has a downloadable tool for users to follow a step-by-step approach to quickly conduct a comprehensive analysis of data on mortality levels and causes of death.
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Improving Mortality Statistics in Africa: Technical Strategy 2015–2020
[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]This web page gives access to information on the technical strategy for improving mortality statistics in Africa.
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Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and Attributing Causes of Death
[World Health Organization]This web page provides access to the full verbal autopsy instrument and manual.
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The Web's Free 2017/18 ICD-10-CM/PCS Medical Coding Reference
[World Health Organization]ICD10Data.com is a free reference website designed for the fast lookup of all current American ICD-10-CM (diagnosis) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure) medical billing codes. -
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ICD-10 Interactive Self-Learning Tool
[World Health Organization]This web page offers access to the WHO Electronic ICD-10-training tool, which is designed for self-learning and classroom use.
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