Publications

As part of the Bloomberg Data For Health Initiative (D4H), Vital Strategies is partnering with Viet Nam government agencies to reach objectives set forth in the National Action Plan on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS).

This report details a new approach in air quality management that combines conventional solutions with innovations in monitoring, assessment, data use, and organization can accelerate clean air action, especially in cities with presently limited technical capacity.

The Children Environmental Health Indicators project represents a critical first step toward providing a safer and healthier environment for children in China.

This study analyzed factors associated with a definite or probable failure or relapse event in participants receiving the STREAM Stage 1 short regimen for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB).

This study assessed the effectiveness of a campaign, “Are We Drinking Ourselves Sick?,” that ran nationally in Jamaica in four phases from 2017 to 2019 to increase knowledge about the harms of sugary drinks, shift attitudes, and build support for policy actions to address sugary drink consumption, including a tax and a ban in schools.

This study undertook nationally representative telephone surveys to gain a better understanding of the psychosocial and sociodemographic factors that affected adherence to COVID-19 public health and social measures, and to identify the factors that most strongly related to whether citizens followed public health guidance.

This article discusses limitations of the usual approach to the measurement of abortion safety, highlights the required reclassification of self-managed abortion as "safe," and calls for a new paradigm to emerge for the measurement and understanding of global abortion experiences that is centered in a rights-based conceptualization of quality care for all abortion experiences.

The purpose of this article was to quantify the amount of misclassification of the COVID-19 mortality occurring in hospitals and other health facilities in three Brazilian state capitals, discuss potential factors contributing to this misclassification, and consider the implications for vital statistics.