Birth and Death Notifications for Improving Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Bangladesh: Pilot Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective health policy formulation requires sound information of the numerical data and causes of deaths in a population. Currently, in Bangladesh, neither births nor deaths are fully and promptly registered. Birth registration in Bangladesh is around 54% nationally. Although the legal requirements are to register within 45 days of an event, only 4.5% of births and 35.9% of deaths were reported within the required time frame in 2020. This study adopted an innovative digital notification approach to improve the coverage of registration of these events at the community level.

Objective

Our primary objective was to assess (1) the proportion of events identified by the new notification systems (success rate) and the contribution of the different notifiers individuall

SUBMITTER: Tahsina T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9468916 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature