demographic surveillance system
Use of Space Time Model for Forecasting Mortality due to Malaria: A Case of Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites
... Abstract: Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries especially in rural areas where local resources are limited. Accurate disease forecasts can provide information to public and ...
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An Analysis of Pregnancy-Related Mortality in the KEMRI/CDC Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Western Kenya
... Methods and Findings: To estimate the burden of and characterize risk factors for PR mortality, we evaluated deaths that occurred between 2003 and 2008 among women of childbearing age (15 to 49 years) using Health and ...
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Fertility is below replacement in Harar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Harar HDSS), Harar town, Eastern Ethiopia
... and Demographic Surveillance System (Harar HDSS) in 2013, to better understand how fertility has impacted population growth in the area dur- ing this ...
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Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of birth weight in southern rural Ghana: evidence from Dodowa Health and Demographic Surveillance System
... and Demographic Surveillance ...the surveillance area for offering their time for interviews and consistently sharing their valuable personal information over the ...
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Epidemiology of malaria in the Taabo health and demographic surveillance system, south central Côte d’Ivoire
... Results: A total of 1187 and 1264 people in 2010 and 2011, respectively, had complete data records. The preva- lence of Plasmodium infection was 46.0 % in 2010 and 56.6 % in 2011, owing to a statistically significant ...
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Differences in Population Dynamics and Uptake of Reproductive Health Services in the Urban and Rural Cohorts of Cross River Health and Demographic Surveillance System of Southern Nigeria
... and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) sites help to improve the national vital registration system, and also address the challenges inherent in the CRVS procedures by creating a platform ...
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Stunting, wasting and associated factors among children aged 6–24 months in Dabat health and demographic surveillance system site: A community based cross-sectional study in Ethiopia
... Data from the mothers or caregivers of the children were collected through home to home visits using structured, pretested and interviewer-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to cap- ture ...
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The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: Results from a Demographic Surveillance System
... Injuries due to interpersonal violence are the second lead- ing contributor to the mortality burden in the population aged five years and older. The contribution of all injuries to the overall burden in the whole ...
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Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua
... The first of the Sustainable Development Goals aims at ending poverty in all its forms, everywhere [1]. Poverty is measured by the World Bank and many international agencies as monetary measures on the national level, ...
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Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system
... surveillance system using Smart VA Analyze ...many surveillance and research project sites prefer the critical cultural and region-specific insights of medical staff and train them to assign a COD by ...
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The impacts of maternal mortality and cause of death on children’s risk of dying in rural South Africa: evidence from a population based surveillance study (1992-2013)
... dying and that the associated mortality risks were higher for very young children. A mother dying of an HIV/ AIDS or TB-related maternal death further increased mortality risk, and their children were more likely to die ...
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Incidence of medically attended influenza among residents of Shai Osudoku and Ningo Prampram Districts, Ghana, May 2013 – April 2015
... based surveillance for influenza and other respiratory viruses among residents of Shai- Osudoku and Ningo-Prampram Districts (SONPD) in the Greater Accra ...and Demographic Surveillance System ...
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Socio demographic determinants of skilled birth attendant at delivery in rural southern Ghana
... In 2003, Ghana introduced the free maternal delivery services to solve the cost of services. With prior estab- lishment of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative to increase access, health ...
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Poor child complementary Feeding Practices in northwest Ethiopia: Finding from the Baseline Survey of Nutrition Project, 2016
... Therefore, the study aimed to determine dietary diversity score and its associated factors among under five children at Dabat Health and Demographic Surveillance System site (HDSS), nort[r] ...
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Health Care-Seeking Behavior During Childhood Diarrheal Illness: Results of Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Surveys of Caretakers in Western Kenya, 2007-2010
... and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) area operated through collaboration between the Kenya Medical Research Institute and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Mapping hypoendemic, seasonal malaria in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh: a prospective surveillance
... a demographic surveillance system including an initial census with updates every four months, b) periodic surveys of knowledge attitude and practice, c) a geographic information system, d) ...
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Suicide in a rural area of coastal Kenya
... Methods: Using data collected between 2008 and 2016 from the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural Kenya, we retrospectively determined the incidence rate and risk factors for ...
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The components of self-rated health among adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
... Methods: This study was based on 2195 individuals aged 15 years or older who participated in a cross-sectional interviewer-administered health survey conducted in 2010 in areas of the Ouagadougou Health and ...
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Verbal autopsy completion rate and factors associated with undetermined cause of death in a rural resource-poor setting of Tanzania
... and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is a part of the INDEPTH Network ...The surveillance area covers a total of 2,400 km 2 of Guinea savanna in the floodplain of the Kilombero River, ...
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Volume 23 - Article 20 | Pages 549–586
... and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) between 2003 and 2007 among residents of Korogocho and Viwandani slum settlements in Nairobi city in order to assess the patterns and determinants of both ...
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