Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: The Ifakara Rural and Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Ifakara HDSS)

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 848-861

  Geubbels, Eveline ^a,b   Amri, Shamte ^a,b   Levira, Francis ^a   Schellenberg, Joanna ^a   Masanja, Honorati ^a,b   Nathan, Rose ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEGLECTED DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; TROPICAL DISEASE; URBAN POPULATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PHASE 4 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; TRENDS;

IFAKARA; KILOMBERO; MOROGORO [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE IV AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84939611608     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv068     Document Type: Article

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