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| Title |
Health and demographic surveillance systems: a step towards full civil registration and vital statistics system in sub-Sahara Africa?
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-741 |
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| Authors |
Yazoume Ye, Marilyn Wamukoya, Alex Ezeh, Jacques B O Emina, Osman Sankoh |
| Abstract |
In the developed world, information on vital events is routinely collected nationally to inform population and health policies. However, in many low-and middle-income countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), there is a lack of effective and comprehensive national civil registration and vital statistics system. In the past decades, the number of Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) has increased throughout SSA. An HDSS monitors births, deaths, causes of death, migration, and other health and socio-economic indicators within a defined population over time. Currently, the International Network for the Continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) brings together 38 member research centers which run 44 HDSS sites from 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Oceana. Thirty two of these HDSS sites are in SSA. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 281 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| India | 4 | 1% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 264 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 53 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 45 | 16% |
| Researcher | 44 | 16% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 5% |
| Professor | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 57 | 20% |
| Unknown | 58 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 58 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 57 | 20% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 32 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 46 | 16% |
| Unknown | 71 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2023.
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#1,749,503
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,926
of 15,300 outputs
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#11,288
of 170,401 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#30
of 333 outputs
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