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Validity and completeness of death reporting and registration in a rural district of Vietnam
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 31:12-18
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2003.
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Abstract
- Aims: Assessment was made of the validity of mortality estimates based on data collected during 1999 - 2000 by quarterly follow-up visits and compared with other methods (re-census, communal death registration, and neighbourhood survey). Methods: This study was carried out within a longitudinal epidemiological laboratory in Bavi District, Vietnam (called FilaBavi), covering a sample of 11,089 households with 51,024 inhabitants. Deaths within FilaBavi during 1999 - 2000 were collected by four methods and compared: quarterly household follow-ups, the re-census carried out in 2001, the Commune Population Registration System (CPRS), and a neighbourhood survey. Results: Within these four methods, a total of 471 deaths were detected in the FilaBavi sample. Quarterly household follow-ups detected 470 deaths (99.8%). The re-census missed 19 deaths, of which eight were infants, and two-thirds of the missed deaths fell in 1999. The CPRS missed 89 cases (19%), the majority being infant and elderly deaths. The neighbourhood survey over-reported deaths. Conclusions: Quarterly follow-ups were the best method for death registration. The re-census approach was less complete, with problems of recall bias. The completeness and quality of death registration by CPRS was low, especially for infant and elderly mortality.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Rural Population
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
020205 medical informatics
Poison control
02 engineering and technology
Death Certificates
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
Age Distribution
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
Infant Mortality
Epidemiology
Injury prevention
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Humans
Registries
030212 general & internal medicine
Mortality
Sex Distribution
Child
Demography
business.industry
Public health
Infant, Newborn
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infant
Reproducibility of Results
Censuses
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Census
Vietnam
Child, Preschool
Population Surveillance
Female
Death certificate
Rural area
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16511905 and 14034948
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1622a511542f3fb2f82dc57d6421b61
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14034950310015059