Validity and completeness of death reporting and registration in a rural district of Vietnam

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.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2003

Erschienen:

2003

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:62

Enthalten in:

Scandinavian journal of public health. Supplement - 62(2003) vom: 15., Seite 12-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huy, Tran Quang [VerfasserIn]
Long, Nguyen Hoang [VerfasserIn]
Hoa, Dinh Phuong [VerfasserIn]
Byass, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Ericksson, Bo [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Validation Study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 17.03.2004

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM143560190