Browsing by Author "Kajungu, Dan"

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    An assessment of non-communicable disease mortality among adults in Eastern Uganda, 2010–2016
    (Plos one, 2021) Natukwatsa, Davis; Wosu, Adaeze C.; Ndyomugyenyi, Donald Bruce; Waibi, Musa; Kajungu, Dan
    There is a dearth of studies assessing non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality withinpopulation-based settings in Uganda. We assessed mortality due to major NCDs among persons 30 years in Eastern Uganda from 2010 to 2016.The study was carried out at the Iganga-Mayuge health and demographic surveillance site in the Iganga and Mayuge districts of Eastern Uganda. Information on cause of death was obtained through verbal autopsies using a structured questionnaire to conduct face-face interviews with carers or close relatives of the deceased. Physicians assigned likely cause of death using ICD-10 codes. Age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated using direct method, with the average population across the seven years of the study (2010 to 2016) as the standard. Age categories of 30–40, 41–50, 51–60, 61–70, and 71 years were used for standardization. A total of 1,210 deaths among persons 30 years old were reported from 2010 to 2016 (50.7% among women). Approximately 53% of all deaths were due to non-communicable diseases, 31.8% due to communicable diseases, 8.2% due to injuries, and 7% due to maternal-related deaths or undetermined causes. Cardiovascular diseases accounted for thevlargest proportion of NCD deaths in each year, and women had substantially higher cardio-vascular disease mortality rates compared to men. Conversely, women had lower diabetes mortality rates than men for five of the seven years examined.Non-communicable diseases are major causes of death among adults in Iganga and Mayuge; and cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are leading causes of NCD deaths.
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    Cohort Profile: The Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda (IMHDSS, Uganda)
    (International journal of epidemiology, 2020) Kajungu, Dan; Hirose, Atsumi; Rutebemberwa, Elizeus; Pariyo, George W; Peterson, Stefan; Guwatudde, David; Galiwango, Edward; Tusubira, Valerie; Kaija, Judith; Nareeba, Tryphena; Hanson, Claudia
    The Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (IMHDSS) was set up in 2004 to provide a platform for community-based epidemiological research and research training. Seed funding was provided by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) as part of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Makerere University– Sweden bilateral research collaboration. The specific objectives at inception were to (i) register and monitor health and demographic events (births, deaths, migration) and dynamics in a population and serve as a resource of information for decision making, providing an environment for several community-based projects in single-/multi-disciplinary research and research training; (ii) provide unique, essential, household-level information individually tailored for policy, planning and research needs; (iii) provide a platform for training in applied field research and practical health, socioeconomic and demographic survey methods to students, staff and researchers; and (iv) provide a platform for high-quality household survey data for operational field trials that measures interventions including but not limited to, monitoring trends in communicable and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), clinical and vaccine trials and other surveillance activities.
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    Randomised Comparison Of Two Household Survey Modules For Measuring Stillbirths And Neonatal Deaths In Five Countries: The Every Newborn-INDEPTH Study
    (The Lancet Global Healt, 2020) Akuze, Joseph; Blencowe, Hannah; Waiswa, Peter; Baschieri, Angela; Gordeev, Vladimir S; Kwesiga, Doris; Fisker, Ane B.; Thysen, Sanne M.; Rodrigues, Amabelia; Biks, Gashaw A.; Abebe, Solomon M.; Gelaye, Kassahun A.; Mengistu, Mezgebu Y.; Geremew, Bisrat M.; Delele, Tadesse G.; Tesega, Adane K.; Yitayew, Temesgen A.; Kasasa, Simon; Galiwango, Edward; Natukwatsa, Davis; Kajungu, Dan; Enuameh, Yeetey A.K.; Nettey, Obed E.; Dzabeng, Francis; Amenga-Etego, Seeba; Newton, Sam K.; Tawiah, Charlotte; Asante, Kwaku P.; Owusu-Agyei, Seth; Alam, Nurul; Haider, Moinuddin M.; Imam, Ali; Mahmud, Kaiser; Cousens, Simon; Lawn, Joy E.
    An estimated 5·1 million stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur annually. Household surveys, most notably the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), run in more than 90 countries and are the main data source from the highest burden regions, but data-quality concerns remain. We aimed to compare two questionnaires: a full birth history module with additional questions on pregnancy losses (FBH+; the current DHS standard) and a full pregnancy history module (FPH), which collects information on all livebirths, stillbirths, miscarriages, and neonatal deaths.