The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda offers a major impetus to consolidate and accelerate development in civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. Strengthening CRVS systems is an SDG outcome in itself. Moreover, CRVS systems are the best – if not essential – source of data to monitor and guide health policy debates and to assess progress towards numerous SDG targets and indicators. They also provide the necessary documentation and proof of identity for service access and are critical for disaster preparedness and response. While there has been impressive global momentum to improve CRVS systems over the past decade, several challenges remain. This article collection provides an overview of recent innovations, progress, viewpoints and key areas in which action is still required – notably around the need for better systems and procedures to notify the fact of death and to reliably diagnose its cause, both for deaths in hospital and elsewhere.

中文翻译：

---

减少对谁死的无知：研究和创新以增强CRVS系统。

可持续发展目标（SDG）议程为巩固和加快民事登记和人口动态统计（CRVS）系统的发展提供了主要动力。加强CRVS系统本身就是一项可持续发展目标。此外，CRVS系统是最好的（即使不是必不可少的）数据源，用于监控和指导卫生政策辩论并评估实现许多SDG目标和指标的进展。它们还为服务访问提供了必要的文档和身份证明，对于灾难的准备和响应至关重要。尽管过去十年来全球在改善CRVS系统方面拥有令人印象深刻的势头，但仍存在一些挑战。本文集概述了最新的创新，进展，