THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL AND NONINSTITUTIONAL FACTORS ON COVERAGE OF VITAL REGISTRATION SYSTEM IN 2007

Statistics related to death events has revealed that delay of death registration existed since the inception of Civil Registration Organization (CRO) in Iran. In recent years, recognizing influential factors of delay in registration of death has become one of the major concerns of the CRO, hence researches has been conducted. This paper is based on one of these studies. The novelty of this study is that factors related to registration of death have been categorized into intra- institutional and extra- institutional factors with emphasis on current death rates in provinces. A descriptive method has been employed in this research and the study population comprised of employers of different offices of CRO, clients or attendees of offices of CRO, and authorities of institutions and organizations associated with CRO. The method of sampling was random simple sampling. The study instrument was questionnaires that were designed in three different types according to the respondents. One of the main results of this study was that, in moderate and rich provinces, the most important factor on enhanced death registration was advocacy, providing information and education on legal issues to people, from the perspective of authorities and informants of offices of CRO. Another important finding of this study was that in poor provinces, the most important factor in under registration of death was lack of an evaluation and control system on the procedure of generation of statistics. Based on perspectives of authorities of organizations associated with CRO, in total sample and in poor and moderate provinces, the most important factors in death registration was cooperation of hospitals and health houses with offices of CRO. From the viewpoints of authorities of CRO related organizations in rich provinces, the most important factor in death registration was provision of information on statistic of death for authorities.