Cohort Profile: The Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda (IMHDSS, Uganda)
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Date
2020
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International journal of epidemiology
Abstract
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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Cohort Profile, Uganda (IMHDSS, Uganda), Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (IMHDSS), Uganda
Citation
Kajungu, D., Hirose, A., Rutebemberwa, E., Pariyo, GW, Peterson, S., Guwatudde, D., ... & Hanson, C. (2020). Cohort profile: the Iganga-Mayuge health and demographic surveillance site, Uganda (IMHDSS, Uganda). International journal of epidemiology , 49 (4), 1082-1082g.doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa064