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Physician's Handbook on Medical Certification of Death
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]While this handbook is oriented toward the U.S. vital statistics system, the information on certification of medical information is universally relevant. -
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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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Use of Community Health Data for Shared Accountability: Guidance
[Measure Evaluation]This is a guidance for practice document on how to use health data to be more responsible and accountable to communities for their health status. This document is designed for community leaders -
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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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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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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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Statistics on Marriages and Divorces, 2019
[The Singapore Department of Statistics]Statistics on Marriages and Divorces, 2019 is an annual publication presented by the Singapore Department of Statistics in two parts. Part One analyses the marriage trends, and characteristics of -
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This peer reviewed article seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica. -
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Underreporting of deaths in the maternal deaths surveillance system in one region of Morocco
[Public library of medicine]Peer reviewed articles that assesses the reliability of maternal deaths surveillance system (MDSS) in order to determine the factors that influence its completeness in one region of Morocco. -
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[ International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This is a peer reviewed article that seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica. -
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Underreporting of deaths in the maternal deaths surveillance system in one region of Morocco
[Public library of medicine]Peer reviewed articles that assesses the reliability of maternal deaths surveillance system (MDSS) in order to determine the factors that influence its completeness in one region of Morocco. -
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World Health Statistics 2018: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
[World Health Organization]The World Health Statistics series is the annual snapshot of the state of the world's health. This 2018 edition contains the latest available data for 36 health-related Sustainable Development Goal -
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World Health Statistics 2020
[World Health Organization]The World health statistics 2020 report is the latest annual compilation of health statistics for 194 Member States. It summarizes trends in life expectancy and causes of death and reports on progress
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.