Solutions to prevent this loss of important data have been explored by communities around the globe. An example of this includes community-based monitoring, in which communities that are not in countries where health data is routinely collected record their own data. This has been seen in India, where a pattern in sex determination and abortion rates was observed after community-based data was collected. When the sex of the child was determined as female, it was seen that many women chose to terminate these pregnancies. This potentially detrimental pattern to the population would not have been caught without this data collection and analysis. Based on this, mathematical models can then be used to simulate interventions and policies to offer the best solution to this problem.
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