Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: Farafenni Health and Demographic Surveillance System in The Gambia

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 837-847

  Jasseh, Momodou ^a,b   Gomez, Pierre ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^c   Howie, Stephen R C ^a,d,e   Scott, Susana ^a,c   Snell, Paul C ^c   Bojang, Kalifa ^a   Cham, Mamady ^f   Corrah, Tumani ^a   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a,c,g  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

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

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f AFPRC General Hospital   (Gambia)

^g INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Heart rate; Linear mixed models; Longitudinal; Risk factors; Trends

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RESIDENT POPULATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; TREND ANALYSIS; VILLAGE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA BASE; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GAMBIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRENDS;

FARAFENNI; GAMBIA; GAMBIA RIVER;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84939618749     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv049     Document Type: Article

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