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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Health and demographic surveillance"”.
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Risk factors for cardiometabolic disease among children in South East Asia
Background and objectives: The current and projected burden of cardiometabolic diseases in Asia is high, with a notable and rapidly increasing prevalence of associated risk factors among children in this region. Comprehensive evidence on cardiometabolic disease risk factors among children in Asia …
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Determinants of Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in Rural Northern Malawi
… to develop a detailed epidemiological understanding of local trends in child survival in rural Malawi by identifying the subgroups of children among whom, and the causes of death from which, gains in child survival have been most evident. Further, it aimed to do so by leveraging the strengths …
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The effect of low birth weight on timing to BCG vaccination in a rural district of Northern Ghana
… to the maturation of the infant immune system and thereby protecting against fatal infections in the neonatal period. It has been noted to also reduce neonatal mortality in these LBW infants. In some low-income countries, BCG vaccination is usually postponed for children born with a low …
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Modelling the transmission dynamics of RSV and the impact of routine vaccination
… that these young infants are poor responders to candidate RSV vaccines. This thesis focuses on the use of mathematical models to explore the merits of vaccination. <br></br><br></br> <b>Methods:</b> Following development and analysis of a simple non-age-structured ODE model, we elaborate this to a …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries
… consists of three chapters that address health issues in developing countries. The first two chapters study Ghana's social health insurance program, the National Health Insurance Scheme. Many developing countries have recently instituted social health insurance schemes (SHIs) to ease …