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Welcome to our seventh edition of More than Numbers.
The e-newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on what is happening in the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) arm of the
Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative (D4H) by
the University of Melbourne.
I hope this finds you well.
We are delighted to be able to continue to support CRVS strengthening in five of our partner countries: China, Myanmar, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. We have collectively made tremendous progress in these countries over the past four years and we are excited to be working with them to accelerate CRVS reforms in the next two.
We provide some more detail in this newsletter about the exciting developments in two of these countries, China and Myanmar, which will give you a very good idea of the progress that has been made in the past four years and our plans for the next two.
The Fellowship Program has been a massive success over the past four years, with 30 fellows from 12 countries. We are now looking for new fellows for our next intake. If this appeals to you, please apply or share the link with anyone who may be interested. Make sure to be quick though, applications close on the 5th of August!
We thank you for the last survey some of you completed earlier this year, the results have brought some potential improvements to our attention. We are now looking at the ease of use of the Gateway and we ask that you help us improve it further by completing the 2 minute survey below.
We've introduced a mailing list for ANACONDA and ANACONDA Plus. I encourage you to subscribe to field any questions you may have and to receive any ANACONDA updates.
On the Gateway, we've had new products uploaded that detail information on the CRVS Performance Metrics Toolkit, OpenCRVS and a report with case studies on CRVS information networks in Ghana and Peru. Additionally, we've also added CRVS tools and resources that have been translated to Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Please have a read through below and I look forward to providing further updates in a few months.
Best wishes,
Laureate Professor Alan Lopez AC, Director
Have comments or suggestions for future content?
Email us at crvs-info@unimelb.edu.au
The Data for Health Initiative is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Bloomberg officially approved the University of Melbourne's Phase 3 Work Plans for China, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar and the Solomon Islands.
As well as implementing phase 3 work plans over the next two years, we endeavor to:
• Welcome 25 new fellows to the CRVS Fellowship program
• Improve the CRVS Gateway and introduce new resources
• Refine and produce tools such as; VIPER 2.0
To date, 30 Fellows from 12 countries have participated in the CRVS Fellowship Program at the University of Melbourne. We're happy to announce that we are now seeking new applicants for the next intake, more info here.
The CRVS Knowledge Gateway accrues thousands of views monthly and has become a vital resource since its launch.
We are looking to make some changes in the future to improve the usability of the site and ask that you please take part in this two minute survey.
With work plans approved by Bloomberg, we are now implementing our key interventions in phase 3 to our five D4H initiative countries. Below, we briefly outline phase 3 for China and Myanmar.
The Chinese Centre for Disease and Prevention (China CDC) online death reporting system collected 4.9 million deaths in 2013. During phase 2 (2018), the system collected 7.7 million. The GBD study (Global Burden of Disease) estimates approximately 10.4 million deaths per year. This means there is approximately 2.7 million deaths unaccounted for.
In phase 3 we aim to account for these deaths. We aim to increase Death notifications and Completeness in 6 provinces that accounted for 42% of under reported deaths in 2017. Our goal, to increase death notification to 75% by 2021.
During phases 1 & 2 Myanmar conducted 42,045 VAs in 42 townships, implemented MCCOD and ICD (International Classification of Diseases) training nationwide and improved staff capacity for data analysis and interpretation.
Now we plan to consolidate the progress made in these townships and focus on areas that did not fully embed VA processes. We will also roll out MCCOD Training to these areas where both VA and death registration is being improved. This will allow us to calculate the completeness in death registration based on both hospital and community-based deaths and the COD death pattern for whole townships.
We have recently launched a mailing list to facilitate communication between trainers and users of ANACONDA and ANACONDA Plus.
To subscribe follow the link, click on 'Subscribe me' and register your email address.
https://lists.unimelb.edu.au/info/anaconda-discussion
Want to take a deeper dive into strengthening CRVS? Our new and updated resources are a good place to start.
You can take a look at all of our resources at: https://crvsgateway.info/library
Here are the latest resources that have been added to the Gateway.
CRVS innovations: Assessing the performance of CRVS systems
As CRVS system strengthening initiatives take shape, there is an increasing need to measure & monitor progress in data quality improvements in vital statistics. How can we address this need? The CRVS Performance Metrics Toolkit.
Essential CRVS processes and actors: Considerations for the Development of OpenCRVS
OpenCRVS is the next step in the eCRVS Capacity Building Roadmap. With this in mind we summarize vital CRVS processes according to stakeholders, common activities and data requirements.
Mapping sources and silos of mortality data: Case studies in Peru and Ghana
This technical report provides an in depth analysis of how the CRVS information networks are connected in Peru and Ghana.
A selection of CRVS tools and resources have been translated into Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Chinese:
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Guidance for the rapid tool
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Rapid tool
Handbook for doctors on cause of death certification
Medical certification of cause of death: Facilitator's guide
Medical Certification of cause of death: Undergraduate curriculum
Portuguese:
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Guidance for the rapid tool
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Rapid tool
Handbook for doctors on cause of death certification
Medical certification of cause of death: Facilitator's guide
Medical certification of cause of death: Undergraduate curriculum
Spanish:
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Guidance for the rapid tool
Assessing the quality of death certificates: Rapid tool
Handbook for doctors on cause of death certification
Medical certification of cause of death: Facilitator's guide
Medical certification of cause of death: Undergraduate curriculum
