The importance of identified cause-of-death information being available for public health surveillance, actions and research.
S Afr Med J
; 105(7): 528-30, 2015 Sep 21.
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ABSTRACT
An amendment to the South African Births and Deaths Registration Act has compromised efforts to strengthen local mortality surveillance to provide statistics for small areas and enable data linkage to provide information for public health actions. Internationally it has been recognised that a careful balance needs to be kept between protecting individual patient confidentiality and enabling effective public health intelligence to guide patient care and service delivery and prevent harmful exposures. This article describes the public health benefits of a local mortality surveillance system in the Western Cape Province, South Africa (SA), as well as its potential for improving the quality of vital statistics data with integration into the national civil registration and vital statistics system. It also identifies other important uses for identifiable cause-of-death data in SA that have been compromised by this legislation.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Salud Pública
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Causas de Muerte
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Vigilancia en Salud Pública
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
País como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Año:
2015
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Article