Profile: The KEMRI/CDC Health and Demographic Surveillance System—Western Kenya

The KEMRI/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is located in Rarieda, Siaya and Gem Districts (Siaya County), lying northeast of Lake Victoria in Nyanza Province, western Kenya. The KEMRI/CDC HDSS, with approximately 220 000 inhabitants,...

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Published in:International journal of epidemiology 2012-08, Vol.41 (4), p.977-987
Main Authors: ODHIAMBO, Frank O, LASERSON, Kayla F, OMBOK, Maurice, LINDBLADE, Kimberly, DESAI, Meghna, TER KUILE, Feiko, PHILLIPS-HOWARD, Penelope, EIJK, Anna M.van, ROSEN, Daniel, HIGHTOWER, Allen, OFWARE, Peter, MUTTAI, Hellen, SEWE, Maquins, NAHLEN, Bernard, DECOCK, Kevin, SLUTSKER, Laurence, BREIMAN, Robert F, VULULE, John M, HAMEL, Mary J, FEIKIN, Daniel R, ADAZU, Kubaje, OGWANG, Sheila, OBOR, David, AMEK, Nyaguara, BAYOH, Nabie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical Trials as Topic
Data Collection - methods
Demography
Diarrhea - epidemiology
Diarrhea - prevention & control
Female
Human protozoal diseases
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Influenza, Human - epidemiology
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Kenya - epidemiology
Malaria
Malaria - epidemiology
Malaria - prevention & control
Male
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Parasitic diseases
Population Surveillance - methods
Prevalence
Protozoal diseases
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research Design
Rural Population
Tuberculosis - epidemiology
Tuberculosis - prevention & control
Viral diseases
Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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Summary:The KEMRI/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is located in Rarieda, Siaya and Gem Districts (Siaya County), lying northeast of Lake Victoria in Nyanza Province, western Kenya. The KEMRI/CDC HDSS, with approximately 220 000 inhabitants, has been the foundation for a variety of studies, including evaluations of insecticide-treated bed nets, burden of diarrhoeal disease and tuberculosis, malaria parasitaemia and anaemia, treatment strategies and immunological correlates of malaria infection, and numerous HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and diarrhoeal disease treatment and vaccine efficacy and effectiveness trials for more than a decade. Current studies include operations research to measure the uptake and effectiveness of the programmatic implementation of integrated malaria control strategies, HIV services, newly introduced vaccines and clinical trials. The HDSS provides general demographic and health information (such as population age structure and density, fertility rates, birth and death rates, in- and out-migrations, patterns of health care access and utilization and the local economics of health care) as well as disease- or intervention-specific information. The HDSS also collects verbal autopsy information on all deaths. Studies take advantage of the sampling frame inherent in the HDSS, whether at individual, household/compound or neighbourhood level.
ISSN:0300-5771
1464-3685
DOI:10.1093/ije/dys108