Background Assessing the causes of death across all regions of the world requires a
framework for integrating, and analysing, the fragmentary information that is available on …

Background Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of
mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the current status of global data on death registration and
to examine several indicators of data completeness and quality. METHODS: We …

OBJECTIVE: A standard list for ranking leading causes of death worldwide does not exist.
WHO headquarters, regional offices and Member States all use different lists that have …

Progress toward the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals requires
improved information on mortality and causes of death. However, causes of many of the fifty …

Background Reliable information on causes of death is essential to the development of
national and international health policies for prevention and control of disease and injury …

Cause-of-death statistics are available for virtually the entire population of the developed
world (1.17 billion in 1985) and thus estimates of the mortality pattern in these countries can …

Certification of death is the foundation for monitoring mortality patterns and documenting the
leading causes of death, with the results being used to inform health policies and improve …

Background Almost 400,000 deaths are registered each year in Thailand. Their value for
public health policy and planning is greatly diminished by incomplete registration of deaths …

Mortality statistics systems provide basic information on the levels and causes of mortality in
populations. Only a third of the world's countries have complete civil registration systems that …