Profile: The Kilifi health and demographic surveillance system (KHDSS)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 650-657

  Scott, J Anthony G ^a,b,c   Bauni, Evasius ^a,c   Moisi, Jennifer C ^a,b   Ojal, John ^a   Gatakaa, Hellen ^a   Nyundo, Christopher ^a   Molyneux, Catherine S ^a,b   Kombe, Francis ^a   Tsofa, Benjamin ^a   Marsh, Kevin ^a,b   Peshu, Norbert ^a   Williams, Thomas N ^a,b,c  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Demography; Disease burden; Haemoglobinopathies; Invasive bacterial diseases; Vaccine effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIAL DISEASE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; COOPERATION; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION STORAGE; KENYA; KILIFI HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL; VACCINATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KENYA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; KENYA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 84863879629     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys062     Document Type: Article

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