Cause of death during 2009–2012, using a probabilistic model (InterVA-4): an experience from Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System in India [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Objectives: The present study aimed to estimate the age and cause-specific mortality in Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) site for the years 2009 to 2012, using a probabilistic model (InterVA-4).
Sanjay K. Rai +4 more
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Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic status in Chakaria, Bangladesh [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Bangladesh has achieved remarkable gains in health indicators during the last four decades despite low levels of economic development. However, the persistence of inequities remains disturbing.
Syed M. A. Hanifi +2 more
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Global Health Action, 2020 Background The burden of diabetes mellitus in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing rapidly, and yet the prevalence and patient characteristics are still largely unknown.
Stine Byberg +9 more
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Cost-effectiveness of providing measles vaccination to all children in Guinea-Bissau
Global Health Action, 2017 Background: Measles vaccination is associated with major reductions in child mortality and morbidity. In Guinea-Bissau, to limit vaccine wastage, children are only measles-vaccinated if at least six children aged 9–11 months are present at a vaccination ...
Stine Byberg +7 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: Early 2-dose measles vaccine (MV) at 4 and 9 months of age vs. the WHO strategy of MV at 9 months of age reduced all-cause child mortality in a previous trial.
Sebastian Nielsen +22 more
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Hank Bass introduces the INDEPTH OMERO Image database
, 2020 Professor Bass from Florida State University is hosting the INDEPTH image repository through the OMERO software. Hank describes the following features of the INDEPTH Image Repository that can be assessed either here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/indepth ...
Parry, Geraint
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Cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease project and the INDEPTH Network [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2016 Cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease project and the INDEPTH ...
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Health and ageing in Nairobi’s informal settlements-evidence from the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH): a cross sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2015 Much of the focus on population ageing has been in high-income counties. Relatively less attention is given to the world's poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where children and adolescents still comprise a high proportion of the population. Yet the number of adults aged 60-plus in SSA is already twice that in northern Europe.
Boniface Wilunda +2 more
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Socio-Demographic Determinants of Improved Sources of Domestic Water used by Households in Rural Southern Ghana: Evidence from INDEPTH Network Member Site [PDF]
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 2017 Background Eighty six per cent of Ghanaians have access to improved water sources. However, one in every four people living in rural communities in Ghana do not have access to a dependable and safe water source. When clean safe water sources are not available, households and communities rely on nearby unprotected streams, wells, rivers and springs ...
Alfred Kwesi Manyeh +2 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Objectives: Campaigns with measles vaccine (C-MV) are conducted to eradicate measles, but prior studies indicate that MV reduces non-measles mortality and hospital admissions too. We hypothesized that C-MV reduces death/hospital admission by 30%. Methods:
Anshu Varma +5 more
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