A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: Monitoring data quality and progress

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10001, 2015, Pages 1395-1406

  Mikkelsen, Lene ^a   Phillips, David E ^b   Abouzahr, Carla ^c   Setel, Philip W ^d   De Savigny, Don ^e   Lozano, Rafael ^f   Lopez, Alan D ^g  

^a LM Consulting   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative   (Switzerland)

^d Union North America   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIVIL REGISTRATION; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; SELF EVALUATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VITAL STATISTICS; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84944153280     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60171-4     Document Type: Review

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