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Under-five mortality rate variation between the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) approaches

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Several low and middle-income countries (LMIC) use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and/or Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) to monitor the health of their population.
Amare Deribew, John Ojal, Boniface Karia, Evasius Bauni, Mark Oteinde   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and First Year Results of a Psychosocial Surveillance System for Chronic Disease Related Health Behaviors [PDF]

, 2003
Chronic diseases account for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States and 60% of the Nation’s health care expenses. Tobacco use, lack of physical activity and poor nutrition account for one third of US mortality.
Maddock, Jay E., Nigg, Claudio R., Marshall, Carrie S., Barnett, Jodi D.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Wearable‐Derived Diurnal Alignment Between Physical Activity and Device Temperature Predicts Future Disease and Mortality Risk

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Wearable‐derived diurnal alignment between physical activity and device temperature, decomposed into 24 h coupling strength (M24), phase deviation (D24), and 12 h harmonic magnitude (M12), is examined in approximately 90,000 UK Biobank participants.
Han Chen, Jiahe Wei, Jonathan Cedernaes, Christian Benedict, Athanasios Tsanas, Zhi Cao, Xiao Tan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A training manual for event history analysis using longitudinal data

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective This research note reports on the activities of the Multi-centre Analysis of the Dynamics of Internal Migration And Health (MADIMAH) project aimed at collating and testing of a set of tools to conduct longitudinal event history analyses applied
Philippe Bocquier, Carren Ginsburg, Mark A. Collinson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

HDSS Profile: Mlomp Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Mlomp HDSS), Senegal

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018
HDSS Profile: Mlomp Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Mlomp HDSS), Senegal Gilles Pison,* Baptiste Beck, Ousmane Ndiaye, Papa N Diouf, Paul Senghor, Géraldine Duthé, Laurence Fleury, Cheikh Sokhna and Valérie Delaunay Département Hommes et ...
G. Pison, Baptiste Beck, O. Ndiaye, P. Diouf, P. Senghor, G. Duthé, Laurence Fleury, C. Sokhna, V. Delaunay   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anaemia in Pregnancy and Infant Mortality in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2004
Tanzania is an area of moderate to high risk for severe anaemia during pregnancy. There is extensive literature examining the consequences of severe anaemia for pregnant women, but the impact this problem has on their infants in malaria-endemic regions ...
Mukasa, Oscar, Lengeler, Christian, Abdulla, Salim, Oscar Mukasa, Tanya Marchant, Salim Abdulla, Christian Lengeler, Marchant, Tanya, Nathan, Rose, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Hassan Mshinda, Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong, Rose Nathan, Mshinda, Hassan   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Real‐World Data of Retroperitoneal Tumor Surgeries Performed by Gastroenterological Surgeons in Japan: Analysis Based on the National Clinical Database

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Retroperitoneal tumors (RPTs) are rare and anatomically complex neoplasms, for which surgery remains the mainstay of treatment. However, real‐world data on their surgical management in Japan have been limited. Objective To describe the clinical characteristics and short‐term outcomes of patients undergoing resection for RPTs in ...
Keisuke Kurimoto, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Masaki Sunagawa, Yoshiki Kajiwara, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideki Ueno, Ken Shirabe, Mitsuro Kanda, Tomoki Ebata, Yukihiro Yokoyama   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protocol: Leveraging a demographic and health surveillance system for Covid-19 Surveillance in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
A coordinated system of disease surveillance will be critical to effectively control the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Such systems enable rapid detection and mapping of epidemics and inform allocation of scarce prevention and intervention resources. Although many lower- and middle-income settings lack infrastructure for optimal disease
Mark J. Siedner, Guy Harling, Anne Derache, Theresa Smit, Thandeka Khoza, Resign Gunda, Thobeka Mngomezulu, Dickman Gareta, Nomathamsanqa Majozi, Eugene Ehlers, Jaco Dreyer, Siyabonga Nxumalo, Njabulo Dayi, Gregory Ording-Jesperson, Nothando Ngwenya, Emily Wong, Collins Iwuji, Maryam Shahmanesh, Janet Seeley, Tulio De Oliveira, Thumbi Ndung'u, Willem Hanekom, Kobus Herbst   +22 more
openaire   +2 more sources

AI‐Assisted IoT‐Enabled ECG Monitoring: Integrating Foundational and Generative AI Tools for Sustainable Smart Healthcare—Recent Trends

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Lachit Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing tariff and medical assistant assigned causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews in Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for a health and demographic surveillance system

Population Health Metrics, 2018
BackgroundDeaths in developing countries often occur outside health facilities, making it extremely difficult to gather reliable cause of death (COD) information.
R. Hazard, N. Alam, H. Chowdhury, T. Adair, S. Alam, P. Streatfield, I. Riley, Alan D. Lopez   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source