Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: Data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System1
Identifieur interne : 000433 ( Ncbi/Merge ); précédent : 000432; suivant : 000434Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: Data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System1
Auteurs : Kathleen Kahn [Afrique du Sud] ; Stephen M. Tollman [Afrique du Sud] ; Mark A. Collinson [Afrique du Sud] ; Samuel J. Clark [Afrique du Sud, États-Unis] ; Rhian Twine [Afrique du Sud] ; Benjamin D. Clark [Afrique du Sud] ; Mildred Shabangu [Afrique du Sud] ; Francesc Xavier G Mez-Olivé [Afrique du Sud] ; Obed Mokoena [Afrique du Sud] ; Michel L. Garenne [Afrique du Sud, France]Source :
- Scandinavian journal of public health. Supplement [ 1403-4956 ] ; 2007.
Abstract
Vital registration is generally lacking in infrastructurally weak areas where health and development problems are most pressing. Health and demographic surveillance is a response to the lack of a valid information base that can provide high-quality longitudinal data on population dynamics, health, and social change to inform policy and practice.
Continuous demographic monitoring of an entire geographically defined population involves a multi-round, prospective community study, with annual recording of all vital events (births, deaths, migrations). Status observations and special modules add value to particular research areas. A verbal autopsy is conducted on every death to determine its probable cause. A geographic surveillance system supports spatial analyses, and strengthens field management.
Health and demographic surveillance covers the Agincourt sub-district population, sited in rural north-eastern South Africa, of some 70,000 people (nearly a third are Mozambican immigrants) in 21 villages and 11,700 households. Data enumerated are consistent or more detailed when compared with national sources; strategies to improve incomplete data, such as counts of perinatal deaths, have been introduced with positive effect.
A major health and demographic transition was documented over a 12-year period with marked changes in population structure, escalating mortality, declining fertility, and high levels of temporary migration increasing particularly amongst women. A dual burden of infectious and non-communicable disease exists against a background of dramatically progressing HIV/AIDS.
Health and demographic surveillance sites – fundamental to the INDEPTH Network – generate research questions and hypotheses from empirical data, highlight health, social and population priorities, provide cost-effective support for diverse study designs, and track population change and the impact of interventions over time.
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<p id="P1">Vital registration is generally lacking in infrastructurally weak areas where health and development problems are most pressing. Health and demographic surveillance is a response to the lack of a valid information base that can provide high-quality longitudinal data on population dynamics, health, and social change to inform policy and practice.</p>
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<p id="P2">Continuous demographic monitoring of an entire geographically defined population involves a multi-round, prospective community study, with annual recording of all vital events (births, deaths, migrations). Status observations and special modules add value to particular research areas. A verbal autopsy is conducted on every death to determine its probable cause. A geographic surveillance system supports spatial analyses, and strengthens field management.</p>
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<p id="P3">Health and demographic surveillance covers the Agincourt sub-district population, sited in rural north-eastern South Africa, of some 70,000 people (nearly a third are Mozambican immigrants) in 21 villages and 11,700 households. Data enumerated are consistent or more detailed when compared with national sources; strategies to improve incomplete data, such as counts of perinatal deaths, have been introduced with positive effect.</p>
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<p id="P4">A major health and demographic transition was documented over a 12-year period with marked changes in population structure, escalating mortality, declining fertility, and high levels of temporary migration increasing particularly amongst women. A dual burden of infectious and non-communicable disease exists against a background of dramatically progressing HIV/AIDS.</p>
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<p id="P5">Health and demographic surveillance sites – fundamental to the INDEPTH Network – generate research questions and hypotheses from empirical data, highlight health, social and population priorities, provide cost-effective support for diverse study designs, and track population change and the impact of interventions over time.</p>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>KAHN</surname>
<given-names>KATHLEEN</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>TOLLMAN</surname>
<given-names>STEPHEN M.</given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>COLLINSON</surname>
<given-names>MARK A.</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>CLARK</surname>
<given-names>SAMUEL J.</given-names>
</name>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="A3">3</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>TWINE</surname>
<given-names>RHIAN</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>CLARK</surname>
<given-names>BENJAMIN D.</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SHABANGU</surname>
<given-names>MILDRED</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>GÓMEZ-OLIVÉ</surname>
<given-names>FRANCESC XAVIER</given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>MOKOENA</surname>
<given-names>OBED</given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>GARENNE</surname>
<given-names>MICHEL L.</given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="A1"><label>1</label>
MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa</aff>
<aff id="A2"><label>2</label>
Department of Sociology, University of Washington, USA</aff>
<aff id="A3"><label>3</label>
Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS), University of Colorado at Boulder, USA</aff>
<aff id="A4"><label>4</label>
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France</aff>
<author-notes><corresp id="CR1">Correspondence: Dr Kathleen Kahn, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, 10<sup>th</sup>
floor, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa. Tel: +27-11-717 2617. Fax: +27-11-717 2084. <email>Kathleen.Kahn@wits.ac.za</email>
</corresp>
</author-notes>
<pub-date pub-type="nihms-submitted"><day>17</day>
<month>2</month>
<year>2010</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>8</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>22</day>
<month>2</month>
<year>2010</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>69</volume>
<fpage>8</fpage>
<lpage>20</lpage>
<permissions><copyright-statement>© 2007 Taylor & Francis</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2007</copyright-year>
</permissions>
<abstract><sec id="S1"><title>Rationale for study</title>
<p id="P1">Vital registration is generally lacking in infrastructurally weak areas where health and development problems are most pressing. Health and demographic surveillance is a response to the lack of a valid information base that can provide high-quality longitudinal data on population dynamics, health, and social change to inform policy and practice.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="S2"><title>Design and measurement procedures</title>
<p id="P2">Continuous demographic monitoring of an entire geographically defined population involves a multi-round, prospective community study, with annual recording of all vital events (births, deaths, migrations). Status observations and special modules add value to particular research areas. A verbal autopsy is conducted on every death to determine its probable cause. A geographic surveillance system supports spatial analyses, and strengthens field management.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="S3"><title>Population and sample size considerations</title>
<p id="P3">Health and demographic surveillance covers the Agincourt sub-district population, sited in rural north-eastern South Africa, of some 70,000 people (nearly a third are Mozambican immigrants) in 21 villages and 11,700 households. Data enumerated are consistent or more detailed when compared with national sources; strategies to improve incomplete data, such as counts of perinatal deaths, have been introduced with positive effect.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="S4"><title>Basic characteristics</title>
<p id="P4">A major health and demographic transition was documented over a 12-year period with marked changes in population structure, escalating mortality, declining fertility, and high levels of temporary migration increasing particularly amongst women. A dual burden of infectious and non-communicable disease exists against a background of dramatically progressing HIV/AIDS.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="S5"><title>Potential and research questions</title>
<p id="P5">Health and demographic surveillance sites – fundamental to the INDEPTH Network – generate research questions and hypotheses from empirical data, highlight health, social and population priorities, provide cost-effective support for diverse study designs, and track population change and the impact of interventions over time.</p>
</sec>
</abstract>
<kwd-group><kwd>Agincourt</kwd>
<kwd>demographic surveillance system</kwd>
<kwd>DSS</kwd>
<kwd>geographic information system</kwd>
<kwd>rural</kwd>
<kwd>South Africa</kwd>
<kwd>verbal autopsy</kwd>
<kwd>vital registration</kwd>
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<funding-group><award-group><funding-source country="United Kingdom">Wellcome Trust : </funding-source>
<award-id>069683 || WT</award-id>
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<award-group><funding-source country="United Kingdom">Wellcome Trust : </funding-source>
<award-id>058893/Z/99/A || WT</award-id>
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<affiliations><list><country><li>Afrique du Sud</li>
<li>France</li>
<li>États-Unis</li>
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<region><li>Gauteng</li>
<li>Washington (État)</li>
<li>Île-de-France</li>
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<settlement><li>Johannesbourg</li>
<li>Paris</li>
<li>Seattle</li>
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<orgName><li>Université de Washington</li>
<li>Université du Witwatersrand</li>
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