Global Summit on CRVS Bangkok 18-19 April, 2013

Leadership and regional action for strengthening civil registration and

vital statitics

Prof. Alan Lopez

Health Information Systems Knowledge HubSchool of Population HealthUniversity of Queensland

HMN’s main achievement The HIS Framework

• First comprehensive HIS description, covering inputs, processes and outputs

• Identified desirable standards for each component

• Key normative publication, endorsed by the WHA as a global standard in 2007

HMN’s MoVE Initiative

• Keeping count: births, deaths and causes of death

• A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone

• Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities

• Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths and causes of death

Mortality data collection by source among 57 low income

countries, 1980-2004

HISHub CRVS Tools