BIRTH REGISTRATION IN CONNECTICUT

Air Pollution and Birth Weight in Connecticut and Massachusetts

In their paper, Bell et al. (2007) examined the effects of ambient air pollutants on birth weight in children born in Connecticut and Massachusetts between 1999 and 2002. The study is the largest among the studies conducted in the United States and has provided evidence that, even with pollutant levels that met the air quality standards, significant reductions in birth weight occurred. The stud...

Barriers to birth registration in Indonesia.

www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 April 2016 e234 2013 legal amendment to eliminate fees for all CRVS documents, the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent across regions, and many parents continue to pay hidden fees. Acquisition of the prerequisite documents, including parents’ marriage certifi cates (found to increase a child’s odds of birth certificate ownership by 90%), contribut...

Socioeconomic determinants of birth registration in Ghana

BACKGROUND Identity registration is not only a matter of human rights but it also serves as an important instrument for planning about health, education and overall development. This paper examines the chances of a child born in Ghana between 2001 and 2006 obtaining legal status of identity. METHODS Data for this paper were extracted from the 2006 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS...

Completeness of Birth Registration in the United States in 1940.

Birth registration and child undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa.

OBJECTIVE In many countries of the world millions of people are not registered at birth. However, in order to assess children's nutritional status it is necessary to have an exact knowledge of their age. In the present paper we discuss the effects of insufficient or imprecise age data on estimates of undernutrition prevalence. DESIGN Birth registration rates and levels of stunting, underweigh...