Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

• Main Authors: Philip W. Setel (Author), Osman Sankoh (Author), Chalapati Rao (Author), Victoria A. Velkoff (Author), Colin Mathers (Author), Yang Gonghuan (Author), Yusuf Hemed (Author), Prabhat Jha (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them despi...