51吃瓜

Thursday, 3 November 2016

08:45 鈥� 09:00

Registration

09:00 鈥� 10:15

Session 1. Opening of the meeting    

• Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division/ DESA, Introduction and objective of the meeting

• Presentation: State of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems in the world: Brief overview of vital statistics data availability based on civil registration and international reporting to UN and WHO

• Ms. Adriana Skenderi, 51吃瓜 Statistics Division [Notes]

• Mr. Colin Mathers, World Health Organization

• Ms. Karen Carter, Secretariat of the Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, 

10:30 鈥� 12:45

Session 2. Session on analytical methods to evaluate the completeness and quality of birth registration 

• Moderator: Ken Hill, Independent Consultant

• Presentation: Claudia Cappa, 51吃瓜 Children Fund, Overview of available data and data sources on birth registration 

• Presentation: Robert Dorrington, University of Cape Town, Methods for estimating the numbers of births: Lessons from an investigation of the age distribution of younger people in the 2011 South African census for the estimation of completeness of vital registration

• Presentation: Nadine Nannan, Medical, Research Council of South Africa, Robert Dorrington, University of Cape Town and Debbie Bradshaw, Medical Research Council of South Africa,  National and subnational experience with estimating the extent and trend in completeness of birth registration in South Africa [note]

• Presentation:  Prof. Wei Chen, Renmin University, Beijing, China, Evaluation of the completeness of birth registration in China using analytical methods and multiple sources of data [note]

• Presentation: Everton Campos de Lima, University of Campinas, Brazil and Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, CEDEPLAR, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Lessons learned with the use of demographic methods and multiple sources of data to evaluate the completeness and data quality from birth registration in Latin America [note] 

Session 3. Analytical methods to evaluate the completeness and quality of death registration (part 1) 

• Moderator: Ken Hill, Independent Consultant

• Presentation:  Haidong Wang, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington,  Indirect methods used for the evaluation of death registration for the Global Burden of Diseases, and review of national estimates of completeness

• Presentation: Nan Li and Patrick Gerland, 51吃瓜 Population Division, Evaluating the Completeness of Death Registration for Developing Countries [note]

• Presentation: Alberto Palloni, Univ. of Wisconsin and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (UCLA, Lessons learned with the application of indirect methods for the evaluation of death registration in Latin America [note]

• Presentation: Romesh Silva, 51吃瓜 Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Beirut, Lebanon,  Lessons learned with the application of indirect methods for the evaluation of death registration in the ESCWA region

• Moderator: Ken Hill, Independent Consultant

• Presentation: Danzhen You, UNICEF, International experience with the use of analytical approaches and multiple data sources to evaluate the completeness of infant and neonatal mortality in LMICs

• Presentation: Michel Guillot, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Lessons learned with the application of indirect methods for the evaluation of (infant) death registration in Central Asian republics by subnational characteristics [note] [supporting paper]

• Presentation: Rob Dorrington, Centre for Actuarial Research, Univ. of Cape Town,  National and subnational experience with estimating the extent and trend in completeness of registration of deaths in South Africa

• Presentation:  Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, CEDEPLAR, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil and Everton Campos de Lima, University of Campinas, Brazil, National and subnational experience with estimating the extent and trend in completeness of registration of deaths in Brazil [note]

Session 5. Record linkages and validation studies to evaluate the completeness and quality of vital registration (part 1)

• Moderator: Romesh Silva, 51吃瓜 Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Beirut, Lebanon

• Presentation: Chalapati Rao, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,  Overview of the principles and international experiences in implementing record linkage mechanisms to assess completeness of death registration

• Presentation: Salah al Muzahmi, Ministry of Health, Oman, Experience of Oman with nationwide record linkage between death registration data and census recall deaths for 2010

• Presentation:  Kameshwar Ohja, Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, VS(SRS) Division, Min. of Home Affairs, New Delhi, India, Experience of India SRS with the use of record linkage studies to the assess the completeness of the reporting of vital events [note] [SRA form]

Session 6. Record linkages and validation studies to evaluate the completeness and quality of vital registration (part 2)

• Moderator: Chalapati Rao, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

• Presentation: Maigeng Zhou, National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, The experience of China with the Disease Surveillance Point system (DSPs) and validation studies to evaluate the completeness of death registration

• Presentation:  Patama Vapattanawonga, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand, Experience with dual-registration validation studies in Thailand [note]

• Presentation:  Eliane de Freitas Drumond, Health Department, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Experience with record linkage validation studies in Brazil at national and subnational level [note]

• Presentation:  Ji-Youn Lee and Ju-Hwa Song, Vital Statistics Division, Social Statistics Bureau, Statistics Korea, Republic of Korea and Sun-Jae Hwang, Chungnam National University and Asia Pacific Population Institute.  Enhancing Korean infant mortality statistics by linking administrative data and surveys [note]

Session 7. Criteria used to evaluate the quality of mortality data from CRVS

• Moderator: Karen Carter (Secretariat of the Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia)

• Presentation: Vladimir Shkolnikov (MPIDR, Germany) and Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR, Germany), Traditional and newly emerging data quality problems in countries with functioning vital statistics

• Presentation:  Tim Adair, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Lessons learned from recent experiences with the evaluation of the quality of vital statistics from civil registration in different settings [note]

• Presentation: Jane Joubert, Burden of Disease Research Unit, South Africa Medical Research Council, Lessons learned with different criteria used and comparative approaches to evaluate the quality of mortality data: national and subnational experience in South Africa [] []

• Presentation: Gretchen Stevens, World Health Organization, WHO assessment of CRVS quality for use in Global Health Estimates

Session 8. Summary and conclusions

• Summary of key points from each session o

• Discussion and recommend

• Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division/DESA.