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Cause-specific mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and ...
P. Kim Streatfield   +27 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where ...
P. Kim Streatfield   +50 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis.
P. Kim Streatfield   +54 more
doaj   +5 more sources

A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2019
Background: Understanding socioeconomic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality can help inform prevention and treatment strategies. Objectives: To quantify cause-specific mortality rates by socioeconomic status across seven health and ...
Matthew M. Coates   +21 more
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HIV/AIDS-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level.
P. Kim Streatfield   +59 more
doaj   +5 more sources

A systematic review of the status of children's school access in low- and middle-income countries between 1998 and 2013: using the INDEPTH Network platform to fill the research gaps [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2015
Background: The framework for expanding children's school access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been directed by universal education policies as part of Education for All since 1990. In measuring progress to universal education, a narrow
Mamusu Kamanda, Osman Sankoh
doaj   +5 more sources

Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased.
P. Kim Streatfield   +58 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and ...
P. Kim Streatfield   +43 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance system sites [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate ...
P. Kim Streatfield   +57 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Commentary: Beneficial non-specific effects of measles vaccine: Fact or fiction? [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
A PLOS One review has claimed that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) show no beneficial nonspecific effects (NSEs) of measles vaccine (MV). Since this claim contradicts previous meta-analyses, we examined the contradictory views.
Peter Aaby   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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