Integrating community-based verbal autopsy into civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS): System-level considerations

Global Health Action

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  de Savigny, Don ^a,b,c   Riley, Ian ^c   Chandramohan, Daniel ^d   Odhiambo, Frank ^e   Nichols, Erin ^f   Notzon, Sam ^f   AbouZahr, Carla ^g   Mitra, Raj ^h   Muñoz, Daniel Cobos ^a,b   Firth, Sonja ^c   Mairea, Nicolas ^a,b   Sankoh, Osman ^i,j   Bronson, Gay ^k   Setel, Philip ^k   Byass, Peter ^l,m   Jakob, Robert ⁿ   Boerman, Ties ⁿ   Lopez, Alan D ^c  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)   (Kenya)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g CAZ Consulting   (Switzerland)

^h United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

ⁱ Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^k Vital Strategies ^*  (United States)

^l UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

ⁿ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Cause of death; Health information systems; Information technology; International classification of disease; Mortality surveillance; Process mapping; Sustainable Development Goals; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTRATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VITAL STATISTICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 85015213672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1272882     Document Type: Article

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