[PDF][PDF] Under-registration of deaths in Thailand in 2005-2006: results of cross-matching data from two sources

P Vapattanawong, P Prasartkul - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2011 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the magnitude of under-registration of deaths, by age and sex, in
Thailand. METHODS: The data in this study were derived from two sources: the Thai Survey …

Registration of vital data: are live births and stillbirths comparable all over Europe?

G Gourbin, G Masuy-Stroobant - Bulletin of the World Health …, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
International comparisons of the perinatal mortality data derived from vital registration
statistics can be made in different ways. In this article we examine the legal and …

Measuring the completeness of death registration in 2844 Chinese counties in 2018

X Zeng, T Adair, L Wang, P Yin, J Qi, Y Liu, J Liu… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Death registration completeness has never been assessed at the county level
in China. Such analyses would provide critical intelligence to monitor the performance of the …

Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data

T Adair, S Firth, TPP Phyo, KS Bo, AD Lopez - BMJ global health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction The measurement of progress towards many Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) and other health goals requires accurate and timely all-cause and cause of death …

Differential mortality in Iran

A Khosravi, R Taylor, M Naghavi, AD Lopez - Population health metrics, 2007 - Springer
Background Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on
mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic …

Assessing quality of medical death certification: concordance between gold standard diagnosis and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals

B Hernández, D Ramírez-Villalobos, M Romero… - Population health …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background In Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected
from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has …

Child mortality estimation: a global overview of infant and child mortality age patterns in light of new empirical data

M Guillot, P Gerland, F Pelletier, A Saabneh - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The under-five mortality rate (the probability of dying between birth and age 5 y,
also denoted in the literature as U5MR and 5 q 0) is a key indicator of child health, but it …

How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data

DE Phillips, T Adair, AD Lopez - Population Health Metrics, 2018 - Springer
Background The registration and certification of births has a wide array of individual and
societal benefits. While near-universal in some parts of the world, birth registration is less …

Temporal and spatial trends of adult mortality in small areas of Brazil, 1980–2010

BL Queiroz, EEC Lima, FHMA Freire, MR Gonzaga - Genus, 2020 - Springer
To determine the variations and spatial patterns of adult mortality across regions, over time,
and by sex for 137 small areas in Brazil, we first apply TOPALS to estimate and smooth …

Differences in perinatal and infant mortality in high-income countries: artifacts of birth registration or evidence of true differences?

P Deb-Rinker, JA León, NL Gilbert, J Rouleau… - BMC pediatrics, 2015 - Springer
Background Variation in birth registration criteria may compromise international
comparisons of fetal and infant mortality. We examined the effect of birth registration …