Profile: The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS). [PDF]
The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS), located on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, was established in 2000 as a record of births, pregnancies, migration events and deaths and is maintained by 4-monthly household visits.
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Acute gastroenteritis due to group A rotaviruses (RVAs) is the leading cause of infant and childhood morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries including Pakistan.
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A research agenda for malaria eradication: monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance. [PDF]
Monitoring, evaluation, and surveillance measure how well public health programs operate over time and achieve their goals. As countries approach malaria elimination, these activities will need to shift from measuring reductions in morbidity and ...
malERA Consultative Group on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Surveillance
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. The influence of double immunization on measles, mumps and rubella incidence in the North-West Federal District (North-West) Russia has been analyzed.
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MORBIDITY RATES IN THE NPP SURVEILLANCE ZONE AND RADIOLOGICALLY CONTAMINATED AREAS
Comparative review of integral variables of mortality rates in children aged 0-17 years and adult popu-lation of the surveillance zone (SZ) of the Rivne NPP (RNPP) with the morbidity level in respective populationgroups of the radiologically contaminated areas (RCA).Morbidity rates were studied in population of the RNPP SZ (Volodymyretskyi ...
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The use of the "Lansaka Model" as the larval indices surveillance system for a sustainable solution to the dengue problem in southern Thailand. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Dengue has been spreading in Thailand for more than 50 years, and the community prevention of dengue transmission is an important strategy to help reduce outbreaks.
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Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers? [PDF]
Demographic surveillance--the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of deaths, and migration in a population over time--is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly in investigating and tackling health disparities.
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The role of infection and sepsis in the Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity [PDF]
AbstractObjectiveTo identify the burden of severe infection within the Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity and factors associated with worse maternal outcomes.MethodsThis was a multicentre cross‐sectional study involving 27 referral maternity hospitals in Brazil.
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Defining Clinical Malaria: The Specificity and Incidence of Endpoints from Active and Passive Surveillance of Children in Rural Kenya. [PDF]
Febrile malaria is the most common clinical manifestation of P. falciparum infection, and is often the primary endpoint in clinical trials and epidemiological studies.
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Tuberculous Meningitis in Children: A Forgotten Public Health Emergency
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with tuberculosis (TB), yet there are currently no estimates of the global burden of pediatric TBM.
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