Data Collection (Learn)
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems impact people’s lives, and the aggregate data collected affects decisions made by a government on health policy issues. Through the civil registration process, individuals prove their identity and civil and marital status while governments gain the evidence base for making administrative decisions to impact diverse groups of individuals […]
Read More
Gender is context specific and can change over time. Gender norms set expectations for relationships between and among women, men, boys, girls, and gender diverse people, and determine expectations of people’s roles in households and communities. Gender norms affect the completeness and accuracy of civil registries and vital statistics systems (CRVS). Many countries require a […]
Read More
This seminar first aired live on March 24, 2022. Moderator: June Sugiyama, Vodafone Americas Foundation Speakers: Many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) seek cost-effective methods to obtain timely and quality health data. One goal of the Data for Health Initiative is to find affordable, scalable solutions to cost-effective collection methods of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk […]
Read More
Sex is a crucial determinant of health, and it has been proven that disease outcomes, occurrences, and health care needs differ for women and men. Sex disaggregated data are typically collected and analyzed in two biological categories: males and females, and then used to develop programs and policies to improve health outcomes. However, sex disaggregated […]
Read More
Gender norms are the ideas about how males, females and people of other genders should act in a particular culture according to custom. Gender roles are the learned behaviors considered to be appropriate to our sex and gender, as determined by prevailing cultural norms. Gender relations intersect with other influences on social relations – age, […]
Read More
This seminar first aired live on February 25, 2022. Moderator: Tawheeda Wahabzada, Open Data WatchSpeakers: To overcome the health disparities facing women and girls and people who are nonbinary, we need to better understand how civil registry and vital statistics (CRVS) data are collected and how to improve such data collection efforts within a country’s […]
Read More