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Item The evolving demographic and health transition in four low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from four sites in the INDEPTH Network of longitudinal health and demographic surveillance systems(Public Library of Science, 2016) Bawah, A.; Houle, B.; Alam, N.; Razzaque, A.; Streatfield, P.K.; Debpuur, C.; Welaga, P.; Oduro, A.; Hodgson, A.; Tollman, S.; Collinson, M.; Kahn, K.; Toan, T.K.; Phuc, H.D.; Chuc, N.T.K.; Sankoh, O.; Clark, S.J.This paper contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four demographic surveillance sites: Agincourt (South Africa), Navrongo (Ghana) in Africa; Filabavi (Vietnam), Matlab (Bangladesh) in Asia. We model mortality using discrete time event history analysis. This study illustrates how data from INDEPTH Network centers can provide a comparative, longitudinal examination of mortality patterns and the epidemiological transition. Health care systems need to be reconfigured to deal simultaneously with continuing challenges of communicable disease and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases that require long-term care. In populations with endemic HIV, long-term care of HIV patients on ART will add to the chronic care needs of the community.Item The Evolving Demographic and Health Transition in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Four Sites in the INDEPTH Network of Longitudinal Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems.(2016) Bawah, A.; Houle, B.; Alam, N.; Razzaque, A.; Streatfield, P.K.; Debpuur, C.; Welaga, P.; Oduro, A.; Hodgson, A.; Tollman, S.; Collinson, M.; Kahn, K.; Toan, T.K.; Phuc, D.H.; Chuc, N.T.K.; Sankoh, O.; Clark, S.J.This paper contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four demographic surveillance sites: Agincourt (South Africa), Navrongo (Ghana) in Africa; Filabavi (Vietnam), Matlab (Bangladesh) in Asia. We model mortality using discrete time event history analysis. This study illustrates how data from INDEPTH Network centers can provide a comparative, longitudinal examination of mortality patterns and the epidemiological transition. Health care systems need to be reconfigured to deal simultaneously with continuing challenges of communicable disease and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases that require long-term care. In populations with endemic HIV, long-term care of HIV patients on ART will add to the chronic care needs of the community.Item Using health and demographic surveillance systems for teratovigilance in Africa(The Lancet Global Health, 2016-12) Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, F.; Sombié, I.; Ogutu, B.; Tinto, H.; Kouanda, S.; Tiono, A.B.; Otieno, W.; Dodoo, A.; Kamanda, M.; Sankoh, O.ncreased funding in the past decade has improved healthcare coverage of the population and access to vaccines and drugs across sub-Saharan Africa.1However, there is still a need to collect valid and sufficient baseline data, data on the safety of drugs and vaccines used during pregnancy, and for innovative approaches to pharmacovigilance in pregnancy to inform policy makers and to improve treatment guidelines.Interest in establishing sustainable pharmacovigilance systems in Africa is gaining momentum thanks to plans for large-scale implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapies across Africa. However, less than 1% of individual case safety reports in WHO’s database (VigiBase®) are from Africa.2Drugs such as tetracycline, metronidazole, albendazole, mebendazole, and efavirenz are not recommended during the first trimester because of potential embryo toxicity.3 Nonetheless, these drugs are still used by women of childbearing age, and even pregnant women, by self-medication or irrational prescriptions.