Under-registration of deaths in Thailand in 2005–2006: results of cross-matching data from two sources

Vapattanawong, Patama; Prasartkul, Pramote

doi:10.2471/blt.10.083931

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“…However, higher levels (e.g. 8.69%, 95% CI =8.65–8.72%) of incompleteness were found in other studies (18, 19) by a dual-records system estimation (18). Use of indirect demographic methods found higher levels of incompleteness in mortality registration (20).…”

Section: Experiences Of Nhe: Thai Bodcontrasting

confidence: 52%

Contributions of national and global health estimates to monitoring health-related Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand

Bundhamcharoen

Limwattananon

Kusreesakul

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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The millennium development goals triggered an increased demand for data on child and maternal mortalities for monitoring progress. With the advent of the sustainable development goals and growing evidence of an epidemiological transition toward non-communicable diseases, policymakers need data on mortality and disease trends and distribution to inform effective policies and support monitoring progress. Where there are limited capacities to produce national health estimates (NHEs), global health estimates (GHEs) can fill gaps for global monitoring and comparisons. This paper discusses lessons learned from Thailand’s burden of disease (BOD) study on capacity development on NHEs and discusses the contributions and limitations of GHEs in informing policies at the country level. Through training and technical support by external partners, capacities are gradually strengthened and institutionalized to enable regular updates of BOD at national and subnational levels. Initially, the quality of cause-of-death reporting in death certificates was inadequate, especially for deaths occurring in the community. Verbal autopsies were conducted, using domestic resources, to determine probable causes of deaths occurring in the community. This method helped to improve the estimation of years of life lost. Since the achievement of universal health coverage in 2002, the quality of clinical data on morbidities has also considerably improved. There are significant discrepancies between the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study estimates for Thailand and the 1999 nationally generated BOD, especially for years of life lost due to HIV/AIDS, and the ranking of priority diseases. National ownership of NHEs and an effective interface between researchers and decision-makers contribute to enhanced country policy responses, whereas subnational data are intended to be used by various subnational partners. Although GHEs contribute to benchmarking country achievement compared with global health commitments, they may hamper development of NHE capacities. GHEs should encourage and support countries to improve their data systems and develop a data infrastructure that supports the production of empirical data needed to underpin estimation efforts.

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confidence: 52%

Contributions of national and global health estimates to monitoring health-related Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand

Bundhamcharoen

Limwattananon

Kusreesakul

et al. 2017

Global Health Action

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“…For example, studies have shown that TB may come close to bacterial pneumonia as a respiratory cause of death in children [41, 42]. In addition, in many countries there are few resources to carry out autopsies, and some deaths may not even be registered at all [43]. These limitations are likely to be amplified in high TB burden countries with few resources to carry out detailed autopsies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Global burden of childhood tuberculosis

Jenkins

2016

Pneumonia

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In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) to be responsible for more deaths than any other single infectious disease. The burden of TB among children has frequently been dismissed as relatively low with resulting deaths contributing very little to global under-five all-cause mortality, although without rigorous estimates of these statistics, the burden of childhood TB was, in reality, unknown. Recent work in the area has resulted in a WHO estimate of 1 million new cases of childhood TB in 2014 resulting in 136,000 deaths. Around 3% of these cases likely have multidrug-resistant TB and at least 40,000 are in HIV-infected children. TB is now thought to be a major or contributory cause of many deaths in children under five years old, despite not being recorded as such, and is likely in the top ten causes of global mortality in this age group. In particular, recent work has shown that TB is an under-lying cause of a substantial proportion of pneumonia deaths in TB-endemic countries. Childhood TB should be given higher priority: we need to identify children at greatest risk of TB disease and death and make more use of tools such as active case-finding and preventive therapy. TB is a preventable and treatable disease from which no child should die.

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“…In such a situation, periodic sample household surveys could provide an additional set of independent data with which to assess completeness using the capture-recapture method, as previously used elsewhere in Asia. [31][32][33] Data recorded in local maternal and child health registers in Viet Nam and in routine reproductive health statistical returns are potentially useful supplementary data sources for improving data completeness. 34,35 However, health facilities, especially in urban areas, need to make birth and death records available to improve measures of infant mortality.…”

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Mortality measures from sample-based surveillance: evidence of the epidemiological transition in Viet Nam

Hoa¹,

Rao²,

Hoy³

et al. 2012

Bull World Health Org

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Under-registration of deaths in Thailand in 2005–2006: results of cross-matching data from two sources

Cited by 21 publications

References 11 publications

Contributions of national and global health estimates to monitoring health-related Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand

Contributions of national and global health estimates to monitoring health-related Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand

Global burden of childhood tuberculosis

Mortality measures from sample-based surveillance: evidence of the epidemiological transition in Viet Nam

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