Documentation of births and deaths, generally, remained very iffy in many parts of the Islamic world well into the 1950s as empires crumbled into nation states, borders hardened, tribes were forcibly sedentarized, and new family names got adopted, so a theory like this is very easy to cook up but it is also just as likely to be true.
For Tibetans in Nepal, business ownership, licenses and most legal transactions, including documentation of births, marriages, and deaths, must be accomplished through the auspices of an intermediary for an exorbitant fee.
The TDSHS strongly encouraged documentation of birthing tub maintenance, including appropriate chemicals and quantities used for disinfection, as well as monitoring of pH and temperature.
In addition, inclusion of standard perinatal death certificate in developing country settings, and improved documentation of still birth in verbal autopsies can also further build evidence related to still births [ 12, 18].
Like many women around the world, she doesn't know when she was born and has no documentation of her birth.
Though she was born in this country, she and her mother say the hospital refused to provide documentation of her birth because her mother is an undocumented immigrant from Haiti.
Considering the most recent household level data available for India from the District Level Household Survey-3 (DLHS-3) of 2007 08, the documentation of still birth was based on recall of pregnancies in the last 3 years [ 13].
The exclusion eliminated the effects of recall bias in cases where there is no documentation on birth weight or BCG immunization date.
Issues of under-reporting and misclassification in documentation of still births are known in household surveys, which are the main source of data on still births in countries with the highest burden [ 12].
