학술논문

Civil registration and vital statistics in health systems.
Document Type
Article
Source
Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Dec2018, Vol. 96 Issue 12, p861-863. 3p. 1 Graph.
Subject
*COMMUNICATION
*COMMUNITY health workers
*DPT vaccines
*HEALTH facilities
*HEALTH promotion
*HEALTH services accessibility
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*RECORDING & registration
*MEDICAL ethics
*PRIVACY
*PUBLIC health
*SUSTAINABLE development
*ADOLESCENT health
*VITAL statistics
*GOVERNMENT policy
*MIDDLE-income countries
*LOW-income countries
Language
ISSN
0042-9686
Abstract
The article discusses the importance of civil registration and vital statistics systems for the improvement of reproductive, maternal, child, neonatal, and adolescent health outcomes, policies and programmes Also cited are the need to strengthen government systems to achieve better health and population data for effective measurement of sustainable development goals (SDG) achievements, as well as the need for health workers to be aware of the importance of birth and death registration.