1. Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities.
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Mahapatra, Prasanta, Shibuya, Kenji, Lopez, Alan D., Coullare, Francesca, Notzon, Francis C., Rao, Chalapati, and Szreter, Simon
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RECORDING & registration , *BIRTH certificates , *VITAL records (Births, deaths, etc.) , *DEATH certificates , *VITAL statistics , *BIRTH rate , *LIFE expectancy , *DEATH rate , *CAUSES of death , *GROWTH rate , *POPULATION statistics ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
This article presents the second is a series called "Who Counts?" which looks at the huge number of unregistered people around the world and how that impacts medical interventions, financial allotments and human rights. Vital statistics such as recording births and deaths are useful if they are of good quality. In this article, the authors propose a framework for the assessment of the quality of vital statistics and look at the gathering of information in developing countries in 2007. The authors argue that vital statistics should be considered public goods and are a key element for measuring health improvement.
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- 2007
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