Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them despi...

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Main Authors: Philip W. Setel, Osman Sankoh, Chalapati Rao, Victoria A. Velkoff, Colin Mathers, Yang Gonghuan, Yusuf Hemed, Prabhat Jha, Alan D. Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2005-08-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Estadísticas vitales
Tamaño de la muestra
Mortalidad
Causa de muerte
Autopsia
Entrevistas
Recolección de datos
Sistemas de información
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862005000800015&lng=en&tlng=en

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