What can we conclude from death registration? Improved methods for evaluating completeness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the fundamental building blocks for determining the burden of disease in populations is to reliably measure the level and pattern of mortality by age and sex. Where well-functioning registration systems exist, this task is relatively straightforward. Results from many civil registration systems, however, remain uncertain because of a lack of confidence in the completeness of death registration. Incomplete registration systems mean not all deaths are counted, and resulting estimates of death rates for the population are then underestimated. Death distribution methods (DDMs) are a suite of demographic methods that attempt to estimate the fraction of deaths that are registered and counted by the civil registration system. Although widely applied and used, the methods

SUBMITTER: Murray CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2854130 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature