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Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana
Low and middle-income countries continue to use Verbal autopsies (VAs) as a World Health Organisation-recommended method to ascertain causes of …
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Geographical clustering and geographically weighted regression analysis of home delivery and its determinants in developing regions of Ethiopia: a spatial analysis
BACKGROUND: Nearly three-fourths of pregnant women in Ethiopia give birth at home. However, the spatial pattern and spatial variables linked …
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Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project
BACKGROUND: Collaborative research is being increasingly implemented in Africa to study health-related issues, for example, the lack of evidence on …
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Are verbatim transcripts necessary in applied qualitative research: experiences from two community-based intervention trials in Ghana
Conducting qualitative research within public health trials requires balancing timely data collection with the need to maintain data quality. Verbatim …
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Individual and community-level determinants of non-use of contraceptive among women with no fertility desire in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effect analysis
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, about two-third of women in the reproductive-age do not use any method of contraception. Moreover, evidence on …
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Implementing effective community-based surveillance in research studies of maternal, newborn and infant outcomes in low resource settings
BACKGROUND: Globally adopted health and development milestones have not only encouraged improvements in the health and wellbeing of women and …
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Maximizing community participation and engagement: lessons learned over 2 decades of field trials in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Successful implementation of community-based research is dominantly influenced by participation and engagement from the local community without which community …
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Development of a women’s empowerment index for Tanzania from the demographic and health surveys of 2004–05, 2010, and 2015–16
BACKGROUND: Women's empowerment is a multidimensional construct which varies by context. These variations make it challenging to have a concrete …
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A cohort study of survival following discharge from hospital in rural Tanzanian children using linked data of admissions with community-based demographic surveillance
BACKGROUND: To illustrate the public health potential of linking individual bedside data with community-based household data in a poor rural …
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Factors associated with age-disparate sexual partnerships among males and females in South Africa: a multinomial analysis of the 2012 national population-based household survey data
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, age-disparate to sexual relationships where the age difference between partners is 5 years or greater is …
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The validity of an area-based method to estimate the size of hard-to-reach populations using satellite images: the example of fishing populations of Lake Victoria
BACKGROUND: Information on the size of populations is crucial for planning of service and resource allocation to communities in need …
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The contributions and future direction of Program Science in HIV/STI prevention
BACKGROUND: Program Science is an iterative, multi-phase research and program framework where programs drive the scientific inquiry, and both program …
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Modelling fertility in rural South Africa with combined nonlinear parametric and semi-parametric methods
BACKGROUND: Central to the study of populations, and therefore to the analysis of the development of countries undergoing major transitions, …