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Themes

Themes

Definitions

Accountability
Accuracy
Administrative area
Age groupings
Age-specific mortality rate
Birth registration data
Care cascade
Catchment area
Causes of death
Chi-square (χ2) test
Civil registration and vital statistics
Completeness of reporting
Compliance
Composite indicator
Confidentiality
Confounding
Construct validity
Content validity
Convergent validity
Core indicator
Correlation analysis
Count
Covariates
Credibility
Criterion validity
Data access control
Data accessibility
Data anonymization
Data collection level
Data collection method
Data consent
Data custodian
Data element
Data governance
Data harmonization
Data information pyramid
Data inputs
Data integration
Data integrity
Data life cycle
Data privacy
Data provider
Data quality assurance
Data quality assessment
Data quality
Data security
Data source
Data standards
Data steward
Data stewardship
Data triangulation
Data type
Data
Death registration data
Death registration desk
Delineated geographical areas within
Denominator
Descriptive cross-sectional
Descriptive analysis
Digital health
Disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
Disaggregation
Disease surveillance system
Domain
Ecological analysis
Ecological fallacy
Effect size
Effective coverage
Estimation method
Evaluation
Event-based surveillance
External consistency of data
External responsiveness
Feasibility
Focal point
Gender
Geo-enablement
Geocoding
Geographic accessibility
Geographic information systems
Geospatial analysis
Geospatial data
Global health estimates
Global Health Observatory
Gold standard
Government agency or institution
Granularity
Health and demographic surveillance system
Health data
Health estimates
Health facility census
Health facility survey
Health impact assessment
Health indicator
Health inequality
Health inequity
Health information system
Health management information system
Health survey
Healthy life expectancy at birth
Heaping of data
Home-based record
Impact indicator
Imputation
Incidence rate
Indicator classification
Indicator definition
Indicator-based surveillance commonly
Indicator-based surveillance
Individual health record
Input indicator
Interaction
Internal consistency of data
Internal responsiveness
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
International Health Regulations
Interoperability
Intervention coverage
Joint external evaluation
Kappa statistic (K)
Linkage
Logic model
Master facility list
Mean
Measure
Measurement method
Measurement level
Measurement
Median
Medical certification of cause of death
Metadata
Method of aggregate estimation
Microdata
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework
Monitoring
Morbidity data
Mortality coder
Mortality data
National health strategic plan
National statistics office
Nationally representative
Negative predictive value
Notifiable conditions
Null hypothesis
Numerator
Odds ratio
Outcome indicator
Outcome-adjusted coverage
Output indicator
P value
Percentage
Periodicity
Population attributable fraction
Population-based survey
Population census
Positive predictive value
Predictive validity
Preferred data sources
Prevalence rate
Primary data
Process indicator
Process of validation
Processed health data
Proportion
Proxy health indicator
Public health surveillance system
Publicly available
Punctuality
Quality-adjusted coverage
Rate
Ratio
Rationale
Raw health data
Record linkage
Register
Registrar
Registration form
Registry
Regression
Relevance
Reliability of data
Representativeness
Response rate
Responsiveness
Results framework
Routine data
Routine health information system
Sample size
Sample
Sampling error
Secondary data
Sensitivity analysis
Sex
Stakeholder
Standard operating procedures
Statistical model
Statistical significance
Statistics
Stratification
Subnational
Surveillance
Survey data
Survey
Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Target population
Timeliness
Tracer indicator
Transparency
Trend
Uncertainty measure
Unit of measure
Usefulness or Utility
Understandable or simplicty
Validity
Verbal autopsy
Vital event
Vital statistics
Weighting
Years lived with disability
Years of life lost