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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"birth registration"”.
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An Assessment of Birth Registration in Zanzibar
This study seeks to explore the relevance of the birth registration in Zanzibar for planning and maintaining the government statistics for its citizen identification and for giving priority of service and opportunity offered by Zanzibar government. The research addresses the notion of Registrar …
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Assessment of subnational level birth registration data in South Africa
Birth registration data forms part of vital statistics. It is the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire an identity and a nationality as stipulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF 1989). The assessment of birth registration is important to …
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Accuracy In Reporting Of Kentucky Certified Nurse-Midwives As Attendants In Birth Registration Data
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction: Birth certificate data is used nationally to determine healthcare policy, allocation of funds, and to demonstrate the legitimacy and value of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) in maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, the validity of birth certificate data is …
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Undocumented and Invisible: Are SADC Member States Implementing the Rights to Birth Registration and Nationality for Migrant Children?
… and the inability to claim their human rights. Birth registration represents one of the main protections undocumented children have in avoiding statelessness, as this reduces their chances of abuse, as well as provides them with a better chance of accessing nationality. Providing nationality is …
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Eradicating statelessness: universal birth registration as a means of realising the right to name and nationality in Zambia
Zambia has one of the lowest birth registration rates in the world. Most children rarely have their births officially recorded. Lack of birth registration negatively impacts children. This research seeks to critically scrutinise the efficacy of Zambia's legal framework concerning statelessness, …
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Modelagem dos registros de nascimentos com as condições de vida no semiárido brasileiro
… feld of vital statistics there are problems with births underreporting, whose the studies, are useful for monitoring and improving the quality of data. The current work aimed modeling the variable birth record with the living conditions of the Brazilian Semiarid, by logistic regression. Therefore, …
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Ending childhood statelessness by 2024: a consideration of South Africa's laws and policies in light of the United Nations High Commisisoner for refugees #ibelong campaign
… an individual the right to a nationality, at birth or later in life. Stateless children do not hold a nationality and as a result they are marginalised and faced with difficulties in gaining access to basic human rights and are denied access to services such as education, healthcare, and …
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An historical demographic investigation into mortality in three historical birth cohorts born between 1837 and 1900 in Mamre, with special reference to life expectancy
… prospective study of three Mamre decadal birth cohorts (1837-1846, 1870-1879, and 1900-1909) constructed retrospectively through existing parish records of the Moravian Mission at Mamre in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Nominative data collection techniques were used to gather …
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Marriage and fertility change in post-Soviet Tajikistan
… four separate but related papers, uses survey birth history data to examine marital and fertility change in post-Soviet Central Asia, with a particular focus on Tajikistan.<br/>The first paper, ‘Through civil war, food scarcity and drought: fertility and nuptiality during periods of crisis in …
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A Mother’s Hope: Pacific Teenage Pregnancy in New Zealand
… part of the cultural fabric. Teenage pregnancy (births, terminations and miscarriages of women <20 years) is a topic widely publicised over the decades. In the literature teenage pregnancy is associated with belonging to a minority population, being a solo parent, economic deprivation, …