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Mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Manhiça district, Southern Mozambique
INTRODUCTION: Mozambique reported its first COVID-19 case in March 2020, and the pandemic exposed significant vulnerabilities in its healthcare system. …
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and child mortality in a population cohort of Iganga Mayuge HDSS in Eastern Uganda (2015–2021)
BACKGROUND: Efforts to track the mortality and public health impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Uganda have been hampered …
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Pre- and during -COVID-19 pandemic mortality trends and drivers in rural, coastal Kenya: findings from the Kaloleni–Rabai Health and Demographic Surveillance System
BACKGROUND: There is contradicting information regarding the effect of COVID-19 on mortality in African settings. Knowledge of the complete direct …
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Household crowding and mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults: Findings from longitudinal population surveillance data in rural and peri-urban settings in Limpopo, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Household overcrowding is a public health concern linked to increased morbidity and mortality. There is limited data available on …
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Socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 period in north-western Tanzania, 2018–2021
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social and demographic inequalities in the communities through pathways of unequal …
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality and life expectancy in northern Ghana: findings from the Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System
BACKGROUND: Measurement of excess mortality attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for quantifying the direct and indirect effects on …
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mortality among adults receiving care for chronic health conditions in rural South Africa: findings from Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance system
BACKGROUND: Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly interrupted healthcare programmes, and resulted in excess deaths. The age-specific mortality profile of the …
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A retrospective assessment of COVID-19 vulnerability index indicators and mortality rates pre-COVID-19 (2018–2020) and during COVID-19 (2020–2022) in a health and demographic surveillance site, Soweto, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Before COVID-19, knowledge on pandemic vulnerability and mortality in South Africa was largely limited to the context of HIV/AIDS. …
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Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in field surveys: evidence from 483 surveys conducted in refugee settings worldwide
BACKGROUND: Currently, there is a lack of clear guidance on hemoglobin (Hb) data quality parameters and plausible flagging ranges for …
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Quality of vital event data for infant mortality estimation in prospective, population-based studies: an analysis of secondary data from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
INTRODUCTION: Infant and neonatal mortality estimates are typically derived from retrospective birth histories collected through surveys in countries with unreliable …
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Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and researchers have used routine health data to estimate potential declines in the delivery …
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Improving birth weight measurement and recording practices in Kenya and Tanzania: a prospective intervention study with historical controls
BACKGROUND: Low birth weight (LBW) is a significant public health concern given its association with early-life mortality and other adverse …
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From raw data to a score: comparing quantitative methods that construct multi-level composite implementation strength scores of family planning programs in Malawi
BACKGROUND: Data that capture implementation strength can be combined in multiple ways across content and health system levels to create …
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Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana
INTRODUCTION: Pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have high risk of HIV acquisition, yet approaches for measuring maternal HIV incidence using …
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Estimating district HIV prevalence in Zambia using small-area estimation methods (SAE)
BACKGROUND: The HIV/AIDS pandemic has had a very devastating impact at a global level, with the Eastern and Southern African …
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A comparison of approaches to measuring maternal mortality in Bangladesh, Mozambique, and Bolivia
BACKGROUND: Many low- and middle-income countries cannot measure maternal mortality to monitor progress against global and country-specific targets. While the …
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Bayesian modelling of population trends in alcohol consumption provides empirically based country estimates for South Africa
BACKGROUND: Alcohol use has widespread effects on health and contributes to over 200 detrimental conditions. Although the pattern of heavy …
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Value of statistical life year in extreme poverty: a randomized experiment of measurement methods in rural Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Value of a Statistical Life Year (VSLY) provides an important economic measure of an individual's trade-off between health risks …
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Geostatistical linkage of national demographic and health survey data: a case study of Tanzania
BACKGROUND: When Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys on primary health service delivery are combined with the nationally representative household survey-Demographic …
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Effect of birthweight measurement quality improvement on low birthweight prevalence in rural Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Low birthweight (LBW) (< 2500 g) is a significant determinant of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide. In low-income settings, …
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