Updates to Spectrum's case surveillance and vital registration tool for HIV estimates and projections

This article examines the extent to which living siblings were given identical first names. Whilst the practice of sibling name-sharing appeared to have died out in England during the eighteenth century, in northern Scotland it persisted at least until the end of the nineteenth century. Previously it has not been possible to provide quantitative evidence of this phenomenon, but an analysis of the rich census and vital registration data for the Isle of Skye reveals that this practice was widespread, with over a third of eligible families recording same-name siblings. Our results suggest that further research should focus on regional variations in sibling name-sharing and the extent to which this northern pattern occurred in other parts of Britain.

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Enhancing vital registration system in Nigeria: prospects and challenges

African Population Studies ◽

10.11564/31-1-1013 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Haruna Halilu PAI

Keyword(s):

Vital Registration ◽

Registration System ◽

Vital Registration System

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Challenges to vital registration in Nigeria

International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology ◽

10.5897/ijsa2020.0846 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Atama Chiemezie ◽

Igwe Ijeoma ◽

Odii Aloysius ◽

Igbo Emmanuel ◽

Ezumah, Nkoli ◽

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Keyword(s):

Vital Registration

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No Will to Know: The Rise and Fall of African Civil Registration in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Registration and Recognition ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197265314.003.0015 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Keith Breckenridge

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Well Being ◽

Vital Statistics ◽

African Women ◽

Biometric Identification ◽

Vital Registration ◽

Civil Registration ◽

Women And Children

Vital statistics have been politically fraught in South Africa for decades, not least because the state made very little effort to record information about the well-being of African women and children. This chapter shows that in the last years of the nineteenth century a working system of vital registration was developed in the colony of Natal and in the native reserves of the Transkei. From the beginning this delegated bureaucracy faced opposition from African patriarchs, from parsimonious white elected leaders and from the advocates of coercive systems of biometric identification. In the early 1920s, under the weight of mostly unfounded accusations of corruption, the system of registration by means of ‘native agency’ was deliberately terminated, despite the general enthusiasm of the magistrates charged with maintaining it.

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Making measures

The Anthropological Demography of Health ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198862437.003.0009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 253-275

Author(s):

Jennifer A Johnson-Hanks

Keyword(s):

Lived Experiences ◽

Demographic Data ◽

Vital Registration ◽

Rich Medium ◽

The World

This chapter discusses the production of demographic measures as a kind of translation. Most demographic data come from surveys or documents produced for administrative purposes, particularly censuses and vital registration. In each case, the production of the document requires that people translate what they understand about the world into demographic categories. As translation, the production of demographic data necessarily entails interpretation; as a translation into a less rich medium, it also involves reduction. The various kinds of demographic data vary considerably in how much they differ from the lived experiences that they translate and partially represent; translations performed mostly by researchers also differ from those performed exclusively by untrained respondents. When done well, there are substantial gains to demographic translation, as a joint result of quantification and aggregation.

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Direct estimates of disability-adjusted life years lost due to stroke : a cross-sectional observational study in a demographic surveillance site in rural Gadchiroli, India

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028695 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. e028695 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nikkil Sudharsanan ◽

Mahesh Deshmukh ◽

Yogeshwar Kalkonde

Keyword(s):

Years Of Life Lost ◽

Vital Registration ◽

Disability Adjusted Life Years ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Registration System ◽

Demographic Surveillance Site ◽

Surveillance Site ◽

Disability Adjusted Life ◽

Stroke Prevalence ◽

Life Years

ObjectiveTo directly estimate disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to stroke in rural Gadchiroli, India and measure the contribution of mortality and disability to total DALYs lost.DesignCross-sectional descriptive study using population census, vital registration and stroke prevalence data.SettingA demographic surveillance site of 86 villages in Gadchiroli, a rural district in Maharashtra, India.ParticipantsPopulation counts and mortality information were drawn from a census and vital registration system covering a population of approximately 94 154 individuals; stroke prevalence information was based on a door-to-door evaluation of all 45 053 individuals from 39 of the 86 villages in the surveillance site.Primary outcome measuresYears of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD) and DALYs lost due to stroke.ResultsThere were 229 stroke deaths among the total population of 94 154 individuals and 175 stroke survivors among the subpopulation of 45 053 individuals. An estimated 2984 DALYs were lost due to stroke per 100 000 person-years with a higher burden among men compared with women (3142 vs 2821 DALYs). Over three-fourths (80%) of the total DALYs lost due to stroke were between ages 30 and 70 years. YLL accounted for 98.9% of total DALYs lost.ConclusionsThere was a high burden of stroke in rural Gadchiroli with a significant burden at premature ages. These results reveal a substantial need for surveillance and improved preventive and curative services for stroke in rural India.

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