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

• Main Authors: Don de Savigny (Author), Ian Riley (Author), Daniel Chandramohan (Author), Frank Odhiambo (Author), Erin Nichols (Author), Sam Notzon (Author), Carla AbouZahr (Author), Raj Mitra (Author), Daniel Cobos Muñoz (Author), Sonja Firth (Author), Nicolas Maire (Author), Osman Sankoh (Author), Gay Bronson (Author), Philip Setel (Author), Peter Byass (Author), Robert Jakob (Author), Ties Boerma (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Reliable and representative cause of death (COD) statistics are essential to inform public health policy, respond to emerging health needs, and document progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. However, less than one-third of deaths worldwide are assigned a cause. Civil registrati...