为满足卫生部门数据需求的临时措施:出生,死亡和死亡原因
Kenneth Hill1, Alan D Lopez, Kenji Shibuya
1Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridg, MA, USA. kenneth_hill@harvard.edu
Lancet (London, England)
|November 22, 2007
概括
发展中国家使用临时数据收集方法来填补重要统计数据的空白. 这些方法补充,但不能取代,对于人口健康的基本民事登记系统.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 发展中国家往往缺乏有效的民事登记系统,以获得关键的人口健康数据.
- 关于出生,死亡和死亡原因存在重大信息差距.
研究的目的:
- 审查用于解决民事登记系统缺陷的临时数据收集和估计策略.
- 评估这些方法在改善人口和流行病学知识方面的作用.
主要方法:
- 利用人口普查,样本重要登记系统和人口监测站点.
- 采用国际协调的抽样调查和增强的数据评估/分析方法.
- 结合口头尸检和疾病建模来确定死亡原因.
主要成果:
- 临时方法大大提高了对发展中国家人口人口统计和描述性流行病学的理解.
- 这些方法在补充不完整的民事登记系统方面已经被证明是有效的.
- 数据的差距仍然存在,特别是关于成年人死亡率的差距.
结论:
- 临时数据收集和分析方法是完整的民事登记的重要补充,而不是替代.
- 这些方法是全面健康信息系统的重要组成部分.
- 国际组织,政府和学术界对持续的数据收集和方法改进负有共同的责任.
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