Data resource profile: The sentinel panel of districts: Tanzania's national platform for health impact evaluation

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 79-86

  Kabadi, Gregory S ^a   Geubbels, Eveline ^a   Lyatuu, Isaac ^a   Smithson, Paul ^a   Amaro, Richard ^a   Meku, Sylvia ^b   Schellenberg, Joanna A ^a   Masanja, Honorati ^a  

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

^b National Bureau of Statistics   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Demographic and mortality surveillance; Health facility surveillance; Representative sample; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PANEL DATA; SENTINEL;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TANZANIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; VITAL STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924588879     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu223     Document Type: Article

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