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Evaluation of a population mobility, mortality, and birth surveillance system in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Prospective, community-based surveillance systems for measuring birth, death, and population movement rates may have advantages over the 'gold-standard' retrospective household survey in humanitarian contexts. A community-based, monthly surveillance system was established in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in partnership with a local implementing partner and the national ministry of health. Data were collected on the occurrence of births, deaths, arrivals, and departures over the course of one year, and a retrospective survey was conducted at the end of the period to validate the information. Discrepancies between the two approaches were resolved by a third visit to the households with discordant records. The study found that the surveillance system was superior in terms of its specificity and sensitivity in measuring crude mortality and birth rates as compared to the survey, demonstrating the method's potential to measure accurately important population-level health metrics in an insecure setting in a timely, community-acceptable manner.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Paper
Geographic mobility
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
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Human Migration
Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
South Kivu
01 natural sciences
Birth rate
Household survey
community‐based surveillance
Environmental health
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
survey
education
Birth Rate
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Retrospective Studies
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
education.field_of_study
evaluation
General Social Sciences
Reproducibility of Results
Relief Work
mortality
Democracy
Geography
South kivu
General partnership
Population Surveillance
Papers
Democratic Republic of the Congo
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Christian ministry
Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14677717
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2ebe5543b851f44af3c4f87234438af2