Standards and tools
Data collection and measurement
Health facility assessement
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Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA)
A health facility assessment tool developed to assist countries to assess and monitor service availability and readiness of the heath sector and to generate evidence to support the planning and managing of a health system.
Civil registration and vital events
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Resource kit for strengthening civil registration and vital statistics
pdf, 2.64Mb
Resource kit is designed for use by all stakeholders who are engaged in strengthening the registration of births, deaths and causes of death within civil registration and vital statistics systems. It presents materials drawn from many sources to enable users to identify, locate and make use of the core standards, tools and materials needed to build stronger and more-efficient systems. -
Analysing mortality level and cause-of-death data (ANACoD)
zip, 2.77Mb
This electronic tool provides a step-by-step approach to quickly conduct a comprehensive analysis of data on mortality levels and causes of death. It automatically reviews the data for errors, tabulates the information, presents the results in the form of easy to use tables and charts, and provides the opportunity to compare the findings with those from other groups of countries. -
Monitoring of vital events
pdf, 1.76Mb
Tool for reviewing country practices in improving the quality and use of birth, death and cause-of-death information. -
Rapid assessment of national civil registration and vital statistics systems
Tool designed to support countries in developing an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of their civil registration and vital statistics system with a focus on births, deaths and causes of death. To facilitate the processes, the rapid assessment is also available in an electronic format which automatically calculates the scores and prepares summary tables. -
Verbal Autopsy Standards
New standard data collection and cause-of-death assignment resources for verbal autopsy.
Household surveys
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World Health Survey
WHO has developed and implemented a Survey Programme and a World Health Survey to compile comprehensive baseline information on the health of populations and on the outcomes associated with the investment in health systems; baseline evidence on the way health systems are currently functioning; and, ability to monitor inputs, functions, and outcomes.
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WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE)
SAGE is developing a strategy and instrument to collect household data on persons aged 50 years and older in eight countries.