Vital records document the birth, death, marriage and divorce of every individual. A more centralized system in the US could help public health researchers better study pandemics and disease.
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Millions of people do not fit neatly into male or female sex designations at birth, and wrong identification can set them up for a lifetime of physical and mental harm.
Proposed reforms in Victoria will not only remove barriers for many TGD people to navigate their daily lives more safely, but help to make gender categories in general less strictly defined.
Health authorities need to bridge the gap and connect with communities to successfully identify health priorities and plan for the future.
In Africa, only four countries record more than 75% of their births and deaths. This creates an unequal system and impacts on how governments plan for these citizens.
One of the biggest problems in international development is that health statistics are badly kept in many of the countries with the most to gain. Finally something is being done about it.
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Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health, University of Aberdeen
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Millennium Promise Fellow and Senior Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Gynecology, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in Population Studies, University of Pennsylvania
