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The Wellcome Trust, UK has published a press release on its website on the Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Sites (SEEDS) conducted at INDEPTH member sites in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania. Ngugi AK et…

Title: Optimising the impact and cost-effectiveness of child health intervention programmes of vaccines and micronutrients in low-income countries Acronym: OPTIMUNISEContract/Grant agreement number: FP7-HEALTH-F3-2011-261375 EC contribution: 2.999.970 €Duration: 66 monthsStarting date: 01/03/2011 Third report: 01-03-2014 to 31-08-2015 Project context: Child health programmes in low-income countries are…

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 The project seeks to use the unique position of the INDEPTH platform of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) in Africa and Asia to understand the impact of various health sector reforms on the population particularly the poor and vulnerable…

What is INTREC? The WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (SDH) argued in 2008 that the dramatic differences in health status that exist between and within countries are intimately linked with degrees of social disadvantage. These differences are unjust…

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…

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…

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…