ANACONDA: a new tool to improve mortality and cause of death data

BMC Medicine
Lene MikkelsenAlan D Lopez

Abstract

The need to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to have access to reliable and timely mortality data has created a strong demand in countries for tools that can assist them in this. ANACONDA (Analysis of National Causes of Death for Action) is a new tool developed for this purpose which allows countries to assess how accurate their mortality and cause of death are. Applying ANACONDA will increase confidence and capacity among data custodians in countries about their mortality data and will give them insight into quality problems that will assist the improvement process. ANACONDA builds on established epidemiological and demographic concepts to operationalise a series of 10 steps and numerous sub-steps to perform data checks. Extensive use is made of comparators to assess the plausibility of national mortality and cause of death statistics. The tool calculates a composite Vital Statistics Performance Index for Quality (VSPI(Q)) to measure how fit for purpose the data are. Extracts from analyses of country data are presented to show the types of outputs. Each of the 10 steps provides insight into how well the current data is describing different aspects of the mortality situation in the country, e.g. who dies of ...Continue Reading

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Mar 17, 2005·Population Health Metrics·Gonghuan YangAlan D Lopez
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Nov 8, 2014·Bulletin of the World Health Organization·Rasika RampatigeAlan D Lopez
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May 31, 2018·PloS One·Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

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Jun 4, 2021·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making·Sarah Charlotte JohnsonMohsen Naghavi

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Software Mentioned

ANACoD
CRVS Gateway
ANACONDA
CRVS Knowledge Gateway
ANACONDA Knowledge Gateway
ANACONDA ( Analysis of Causes of National Deaths for Action )
IGME

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