Lene Mikkelsen

Improving medical certification of cause of death: effective strategies and approaches based on experiences from the Data for Health Initiative.

John D Hart, Renee Sorchik, Khin Sandar Bo, Hafizur R Chowdhury, Saman Gamage, Rohina Joshi, Viola Kwa, Hang Li, Buddhika PK Mahesh, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Lene Mikkelsen, Janet Miki, Roderick Napulan, Rasika Rampatige, Matthew Reeve, Carmina Sarmiento, Nang Su War, Nicola Richards, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Med

BACKGROUND: Accurate and timely cause of death (COD) data are essential for informed public health policymaking. Medical certifica..

Improving the quality of cause of death data for public health policy: are all 'garbage' codes equally problematic?

Mohsen Naghavi, Nicola Richards, Hafiz Chowdhury, James Eynstone-Hinkins, Elisabeth Franca, Michael Hegnauer, Ardeshir Khosravi, Lauren Moran, Lene Mikkelsen, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

ANACONDA: a new tool to improve mortality and cause of death data.

Lene Mikkelsen, Kim Moesgaard, Michael Hegnauer, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: The need to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to have access to reliable and timely mortality data ..

Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland

Lene Mikkelsen, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Tim Adair, Thomas Furst, Michael Hegnauer, Elena von der Lippe, Lauren Moran, Shuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto, Kenji Shibuya, Annelene Wengler, Stephanie Willbond, Patricia Wood, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Public Health

OBJECTIVES: To assess the policy utility of national cause of death (COD) data of six high-income countries with highly developed ..

Assessment of the quality of cause-of-death data in Greenland, 2006-2015

Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Lene Mikkelsen, Nicola Richards

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Are well functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems associated with better health outcomes?

David E Phillips, Carla AbouZahr, Alan D Lopez, Lene Mikkelsen, Don de Savigny, Rafael Lozano, John Wilmoth, Philip W Setel

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET

Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability

Carla AbouZahr, Don De Savigny, Lene Mikkelsen, Philip W Setel, Rafael Lozano, Erin Nichols, Francis Notzon, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET

A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress

Lene Mikkelsen, David E Phillips, Carla AbouZahr, Philip W Setel, Don de Savigny, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET

Towards universal civil registration and vital statistics systems: the time is now

Carla AbouZahr, Don de Savigny, Lene Mikkelsen, Philip W Setel, Rafael Lozano, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET

Systematic review of statistics on causes of deaths in hospitals: strengthening the evidence for policy-makers

Rasika Rampatige, Lene Mikkelsen, Bernardo Hernandez, Ian Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2014  |  Bulletin of the World Health Organization

A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index

David E Phillips, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Charles Atkinson, Diego Gonzalez-Medina, Lene Mikkelsen, Christopher JL Murray, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2014  |  Population Health Metrics

Hospital cause-of-death statistics: what should we make of them?

Rasika Rampatige, Lene Mikkelsen, Bernardo Hernandez, Ian Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2014  |  Bull. WHO

Advocacy for strengthening civil registration and vital statistics.

Susan Upham, Lene Mikkelsen

Journal article  |  2012  |  Pacific health dialog

This article has presented the key elements of the advocacy process and the steps to consider in developing an advocacy campaign. ..

Assessing the quality of vital statistics systems: lessons from national evaluations in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

Lene Mikkelsen

Journal article  |  2012  |  Pacific health dialog

Mortality statistics: a tool to enchance understanding and improve quality.

Carla Abouzahr, Lene Mikkelsen, Rasika Rampatige, Alan Lopez

Journal article  |  2012  |  Pacific Health Dialog

Observations on the global health information forum 2010. Bangkok, Thailand, 27-30 January 2010

L Mikkelsen

Conference Proceedings  |  2010  |  Health Information Management Journal

A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone.

Philip W Setel, Sarah B Macfarlane, Simon Szreter, Lene Mikkelsen, Prabhat Jha, Susan Stout, Carla AbouZahr, undefined Monitoring of Vital Events

Journal article  |  2007  |  The Lancet

Health metrics network and mortality data

L Mikkelsen

Journal article  |  2007  |  Health Information Management Journal