Health and demographic surveillance system profile: The Kombewa health and demographic surveillance system (Kombewa HDSS)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1097-1104

  Sifuna, Peter ^a   Oyugi, Mary ^a   Ogutu, Bernhards ^a   Andagalu, Ben ^a   Otieno, Allan ^a   Owira, Victorine ^a   Otsyula, Nekoye ^a   Oyieko, Janet ^a   Cowden, Jessica ^a,b   Otieno, Lucas ^a   Otieno, Walter ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; KENYA; LABORATORY; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PARASITEMIA; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VACCINATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905651810     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu139     Document Type: Article

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