Results of the Rapid Assessment of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Iraq, 2012
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Results of the Rapid Assessment of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Iraq, 2012 Asaad Mahdi Asaad 1 & Faris Lami 2 & Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel 3 & Wejdan Saeed Assi 4 & Wafaa Ahmed 5 Received: 19 March 2019 / Accepted: 9 March 2020/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Despite a long history, the Civil Registration System (CRS) in Iraq had never been the subject of a formal evaluation prior to 2012 when, in compliance with a request by the World Health Organization, this study was conducted. Stakeholders from different national agencies met on December 16–17, 2012, and used the WHO’s Rapid Assessment (RA) tool to identify areas that require improvement and prioritize actions. The results of this assessment show that Iraq’s CRS is not functioning adequately. Notably, completeness of birth and death registration and the practices affecting the quality of cause of death data were rated as “Weak,” and most other aspects of the CRS were rated as functional, but inadequate. For this reason, a comprehensive assessment of Iraq’s CRS is needed. Résumé En dépit de son histoire, le système d'enregistrement civil (SEC) en Iraq n'avait jamais fait l'objet d'une évaluation officielle avant 2012 lorsque, conformément à une demande de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé, cette étude fut réalisée. Les parties prenantes de différentes agences nationales se sont réunies les 16 et 17 décembre 2012 et ont utilisé l’outil d’évaluation rapide de l'OMS pour identifier les domaines nécessitant des améliorations et hiérarchiser les actions à entreprendre. Les résultats de cette évaluation montrent que le SEC iraquien ne fonctionne pas adéquatement. Notamment, la couverture de l'enregistrement des naissances et des décès et les pratiques affectant la qualité des données sur les causes de décès enregistrées ont été qualifiées «faibles», et la plupart des autres aspects du SEC ont été jugés fonctionnels, mais inadéquats. Une évaluation complète du SEC de l’Iraq est donc nécessaire. Keywords Vital statistic . Iraq
* Hanan Abdulghafoor Khaleel [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
Canadian Studies in Population
1 Introduction Civil registration is defined as “the continuous, permanent, and compulsory recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events provided through a decree or regulation in accordance with the legal requirements of each country” (United Nations 2011). A permanent record of births, deaths, and fetal deaths is created through a government’s Civil Registration System (CRS), which will eventually lead to deriving vital statistics (VS) (World Health Organization 2014). CRSs generate data that are continuous, complete, consistent, cost-effective, and comparable both over time and from place to place (Abouzahr et al. 2015). In Iraq, registration of vital events started after independence in 1921. In 1924, Iraq’s national law formally stated that all vital events must be registered and, as of 1971, registration of births and deaths became t
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