How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data
Abstract Background The registration and certification of births has a wide array of individual and societal benefits. While near-universal in some parts of the world, birth registration is less common in many low- and middle-income countries, and the quality of vital statistics vary. We assembled p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-018-0180-6 |