1. Evaluation of a population mobility, mortality, and birth surveillance system in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Author
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Augustin Karume, Jennifer O'Keefe, Marius Nshombo, Prudence Jarrett, Les Roberts, and Frank J. Zadravecz
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Adult ,Male ,Paper ,Geographic mobility ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,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 - 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.
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- 2019