The group pushed the cause of registration reform and, more important, helped direct funds from national donors to local registration efforts.
For example, an international study from 2000 onwards has shown that out of 83 countries having cause-of-death registration, only 20 countries had high-quality death registration data that could be used for estimating injury mortality, because elsewhere, injury deaths were frequently classified using imprecise, partially specified categories (Bhalla et al. 2010).
External cause-of-death registration is not without its problems, however.
Even if autopsies lead to improving cause-of-death registration, they raise several problems.
According to the WHO, coverage of cause-of-death registration improved to 92.3% since 2007, however, the number of ill-defined causes of death is still high at 21%. 28 When comparing completely different methods of estimation without knowing the true result, the validity of methods are strengthened when they produce similar results.
Other causes of blindness registration remained roughly similar for the two time periods.
All patients were monitored until a first-ever diagnosis of lung cancer, death from any cause, end of registration with a general practice, or end of the study period (31 December 2009), whichever came first.
Patients meeting the study inclusion criteria were then followed until a first-ever diagnosis of lung cancer, death from any cause, end of registration with the general practice, or end of the study period (December 31 , 2012, whichever came first.
Participants were followed until a diagnosis of bladder cancer, death from any cause, end of registration with the general practice, or end of the study period (31 December 2009), whichever came first.
Mr. Lewis, who was nearly beaten to death by the police in a 1965 voting rights march, said, "Probably no single member of this Congress has risked more for the cause of voter registration than I have".
