Sentinel site community surveillance of mortality and nutritional status in southwestern Central African Republic, 2010

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Caleo, Grazia M ^a,b   Sy, Aly P ^c   Balandine, Serge ^b   Polonsky, Jonathan ^b,d   Palma, Pedro P ^c   Grais, Rebecca F ^b   Checchi, Francesco ^b,e  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b EPICENTRE   (France)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d Health and Nutrition Tracking Service   (Switzerland)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central African Republic; Humanitarian; Malnutrition; Mortality; Rural; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMANITARIAN AID; MALNUTRITION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL POPULATION;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHILD; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; DEATH; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; KWASHIORKOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; LOBAYE;

EID: 84865644253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-18     Document Type: Article

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