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Profile: The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS)
International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. –, 2012
Abstract
The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS), located on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, was established in 2000 as a record of births, pregnancies, migration events and deaths and is maintained by 4-monthly household visits. The study area was selected to capture the majority of p …
Keywords
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- NCBI
- NLM
- MEDLINE
- humans
- pubmed abstract
- nih
- national institutes of health
- national library of medicine
- research support
- non-u.s. gov't
- risk factors
- Incidence
- Socioeconomic Factors
- kenya / epidemiology
- vaccination / statistics & numerical data
- communicable disease control / methods
- j anthony g scott
- communicable diseases / epidemiology*
- population surveillance / methods*
- prevalence
- pmid:22544844
- pmc3396317
- doi:10.1093/ije/dys062
- evasius bauni
- thomas n williams
- genetic predisposition to disease / epidemiology
- health surveys / methods*
How to cite
Scott JA; Bauni E; Moisi JC; Ojal J; Gatakaa H; Nyundo C; Molyneux CS; Kombe F; Tsofa B; Marsh K; Peshu N; Williams TN. (2012). Profile: The Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS). International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(3), –. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22544844
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