Background This is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement,“Community health
workers at the dawn of a new era”. Methods We relied on our collective experience, an …

Background Accurate, comprehensive, cause-specific mortality estimates are crucial for
informing public health decision making worldwide. Incorrectly or vaguely assigned deaths …

(1) Background: Maxillofacial injury (MI) occurs universally, for it disregards preference for
age, gender, and geographical region. The global incidence and prevalence of facial …

Aims This study aims to compare estimates of primary liver cancer mortality from World
Health Organization (WHO), Global Burden Disease (GBD) and Global Cancer Observatory …

Abstract Context: While the World Health Organization (WHO) has established guidance on
COVID-19 surveillance, little is known about implementation of these guidelines in …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities worldwide periodically
report COVID-19 cases and deaths. These 'official'counts are aggregated primarily from data …

Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems and legal identity systems have become
increasingly recognized as catalytic both for inclusive development and for monitoring …

Introduction Although global birth registration coverage has improved from 58% to 71%
among children under five globally, inequities in birth registration coverage by wealth …

Objectives To assess the quality of cause of death reporting in Shanghai for both hospital
and home deaths. Design and setting Medical records review (MRR) to independently …

Since March 2018, the Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action project, implemented
as a national sample registration system by the Mozambique Instituto Nacional de Saude …