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Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects

Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) have been developed in several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia. This paper reviews their history, state of the art and future potential and highlights substantial areas of contribution by the late Professor Peter Byass. H...

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Autores principales: Herbst, Kobus, Juvekar, Sanjay, Jasseh, Momodou, Berhane, Yemane, Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim, Seeley, Janet, Sankoh, Osman, Clark, Samuel J., Collinson, Mark A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8986235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35377288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1974676
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author Herbst, Kobus
Juvekar, Sanjay
Jasseh, Momodou
Berhane, Yemane
Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
Seeley, Janet
Sankoh, Osman
Clark, Samuel J.
Collinson, Mark A.
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Juvekar, Sanjay
Jasseh, Momodou
Berhane, Yemane
Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim
Seeley, Janet
Sankoh, Osman
Clark, Samuel J.
Collinson, Mark A.
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description Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) have been developed in several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia. This paper reviews their history, state of the art and future potential and highlights substantial areas of contribution by the late Professor Peter Byass. Historically, HDSS appeared in the second half of the twentieth century, responding to a dearth of accurate population data in poorly resourced settings to contextualise the study of interventions to improve health and well-being. The progress of the development of this network is described starting with Pholela, and progressing through Gwembe, Balabgarh, Niakhar, Matlab, Navrongo, Agincourt, Farafenni, and Butajira, and the emergence of the INDEPTH Network in the early 1990’s The paper describes the HDSS methodology, data, strengths, and limitations. The strengths are particularly their temporal coverage, detail, dense linkage, and the fact that they exist in chronically under-documented populations in LMICs where HDSS sites operate. The main limitations are generalisability to a national population and a potential Hawthorne effect, whereby the project itself may have changed characteristics of the population. The future will include advances in HDSS data harmonisation, accessibility, and protection. Key applications of the data are to validate and assess bias in other datasets. A strong collaboration between a national HDSS network and the national statistics office is modelled in South Africa and Sierra Leone, and it is possible that other low- to middle-income countries will see the benefit and take this approach.
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spelling pubmed-89862352022-04-07 Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects Herbst, Kobus Juvekar, Sanjay Jasseh, Momodou Berhane, Yemane Chuc, Nguyen Thi Kim Seeley, Janet Sankoh, Osman Clark, Samuel J. Collinson, Mark A. Glob Health Action Review Article Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) have been developed in several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia. This paper reviews their history, state of the art and future potential and highlights substantial areas of contribution by the late Professor Peter Byass. Historically, HDSS appeared in the second half of the twentieth century, responding to a dearth of accurate population data in poorly resourced settings to contextualise the study of interventions to improve health and well-being. The progress of the development of this network is described starting with Pholela, and progressing through Gwembe, Balabgarh, Niakhar, Matlab, Navrongo, Agincourt, Farafenni, and Butajira, and the emergence of the INDEPTH Network in the early 1990’s The paper describes the HDSS methodology, data, strengths, and limitations. The strengths are particularly their temporal coverage, detail, dense linkage, and the fact that they exist in chronically under-documented populations in LMICs where HDSS sites operate. The main limitations are generalisability to a national population and a potential Hawthorne effect, whereby the project itself may have changed characteristics of the population. The future will include advances in HDSS data harmonisation, accessibility, and protection. Key applications of the data are to validate and assess bias in other datasets. A strong collaboration between a national HDSS network and the national statistics office is modelled in South Africa and Sierra Leone, and it is possible that other low- to middle-income countries will see the benefit and take this approach. Taylor & Francis 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8986235/ /pubmed/35377288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1974676 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sankoh, Osman
Clark, Samuel J.
Collinson, Mark A.
Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects
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title_short Health and demographic surveillance systems in low- and middle-income countries: history, state of the art and future prospects
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8986235/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1974676
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