A systematic review of vital events tracking by community health agents.

ABSTRACT: Background: Efforts to improve national civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems are focusing on transforming traditionally passive systems into active systems that have the ability to reach the household level. While community health agents remain at the core of many birth and death reporting efforts, previous literature has not explored elements for their successful integration into CRVS efforts. Objective: To inform future efforts to improve CRVS systems, we conducted a systematic review of literature to understand and describe the design features, resulting data quality, and factors impacting the performance of community health agents involved in tracking vital events. Methods: We reviewed 393 articles; reviewers extracted key information from 58 arti

SUBMITTER: Nichols EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566585 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature