Estimation of population mortality in crisis-affected populations

Overview

This paper focusses on population mortality estimation at the scale of the entire crisis-affected area, i.e. in support of crisis-wide humanitarian coordination, or other efforts to influence assistance to and protection of the affected population as a whole. It is aimed primarily at technical staff, e.g. cluster coordination teams, who need to decide whether and how to allocate resources for mortality estimation, and who must subsequently interpret and act upon any mortality estimates. As such, it does not provide detailed methods or data collection and analysis instruments: where relevant, key references to existing resources are provided. An abridged version of this guidance is provided in the Global Health Cluster’s Standards for Public Health Information Services.