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Annual Progress Reports 2011

Annual Progress Reports 2011 When the year 2011 began I was cautiously expectant of what the Network would be able to achieve within the year. One year on I can say it has been quite challenging but in the setbacks that…

Annual Progress Reports 2012

Annual Progress Reports 2012 It is not easy even to begin to contemplate describing the year 2012 within the context of a Network that is as formidable as INDEPTH –challenging, difficult, successful, rewarding, hopeful, interesting? Indeed I think 2012 has been all of these…

Annual Progress Reports 2013

Annual Progress Reports 2013 THE YEAR 2013 was a very successful one for INDEPTH. Perhaps its most notable achievements were the launch on July 1 of the world’s first online demographic and health data repository, the INDEPTH Data Repository (www.indepth-ishare.org(link is external)),…

Annual Progress Reports 2014

Annual Progress Reports 2014 There was very good news for INDEPTH during 2014 when the Network’s Board Chair, Prof. Marcel Tanner, was named among the world’s most productive researchers in the last 112 years of health systems research. Marcel was…

Annual Progress Reports 2015

Annual Progress Reports 2015 INDEPTH in 2015 further strengthened effective data management systems and harmonised data across member centres alongside the training of a new generation of data managers and scientists. Among the key accomplishments during the year was the…

Annual Progress Reports 2016

Annual Progress Reports 2016 Summary of Progress in 2016 in Relation to Strategic Objectives Objective 1: To strengthen the capacity of INDEPTH member centres to conduct longitudinal health and demographic studies Drafting Strategic Plan 2017-2021One of the key achievements this…

FIC

The main objective was to measure coverage of fully immunized child (FIC) using existing prospective data routinely collected by INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) centres. Three specific objectives were defined: For the first objective, the coverage should be…

HEALTH EQUITY

Despite dramatic improvements in medicine and medical knowledge, which have led to improvements in health and subsequent reductions in mortality around the world, much still remains to be achieved especially in reducing disparities in health outcomes among population subgroups, both…

IHTAS

The World Bank has identified youth as a key driver of economic productivity, providing a potential ‘demographic dividend’, since a high proportion of older youth and young adults improve the dependency ratio and can drive the economy forwards. They represent…

Prof. Barbara McPake

Prof. Barbara McPake Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia Heath policy and health systems research Barbara McPake is a health economist specialising in health policy andhealth systems research.  She has more than 25 years…

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