Technical Guides

Vital Strategies, together with partners from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, has developed a series of technical guides, drawing on international standards, tools and concepts and provide users with practical and operational advice and strategic planning support for targeted CRVS system strengthening efforts.

STREAM is a multi-country clinical trial evaluating shorter, more tolerable multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) regimens, carried out over more than 10 years. The trial offered an exceptional opportunity to evaluate key issues related to implementing clinical trials.

The vital statistics report resource kit, which includes a Guide, Template, and Excel Workbook, is intended to enable the production of a vital statistics report. The production and dissemination of a vital statistics report using civil registration records is a key step in identifying health and social sector priorities, and for strengthening a country’s civil registration system.

This document on conducting focus groups looks at how researchers may adapt existing in-person methodologies for to an online format.

This guide describes the key principles, data needs, and methodology for a range of methods that are available for estimating the completeness of birth and death registration at local, district, and national levels.

This research summary presents findings from studies examining responses to road safety television advertisements on speeding.

This document provides guidance for consideration in the establishment or evolution of sound CRVS governance structures and functions.

For cardiovascular disease management in primary health care…