Course Objective
- Describe the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
- Describe the process and parties involved in registering a death.
- Describe the operational, and other, factors that make timely, accurate registration of death possible
Date: October 5th, 2021
Presenter:
Gretchen Van Wye, PhD, MA
Assistant Commissioner & City Registrar
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH)
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Division of Epidemiology
In this month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, Gretchen Van Wye, PhD, MA, discusses the challenges and importance of increased death reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins by recognizing death registration both as a fundamental right of persons, as well as instrumental to monitoring disease outbreaks. She highlights the contextual obstacles of the beginning of the pandemic, which was marked by initial denial and limited testing, but followed a geometric progression and the corresponding response needed. She then explains how death registration works in New York City, and shares the NYDOHMH’s plan to respond to its increased need, including staff, system, policy, and data changes.
Participants will learn about the following:
- Describe the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
- Describe the process and parties involved in registering a death.
- Describe the operational, and other, factors that make timely, accurate registration of death possible
