Syed Ahsanuddin Ahmed, Motunrayo Ajisola, Kehkashan Azeem, Pauline Bakibinga et al.
INTRODUCTION: With COVID-19, there is urgency for policymakers to understand and respond to the health needs of slum communities. Lockdowns for pandemic control have health, social and economic consequences. We consider access to healthcare before and during COVID-19 with those working and living in...
Blessing Mberu, Tilahun Haregu, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex Ezeh
BACKGROUND: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity and assumed better access to health care serv...
Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nawi Ng, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing in lower- and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the health and well-being of these ageing populations is important for policy and planning; however, research on ageing and...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Nurul Alam et al.
BACKGROUND: Because most deaths in Africa and Asia are not well documented, estimates of mortality are often made using scanty data. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By registering all de...
Nawi Ng, Paul Kowal, Kathleen Kahn, Nirmala Naidoo et al.
BACKGROUND: Declining rates of fertility and mortality are driving demographic transition in all regions of the world, leading to global population ageing and consequently changing patterns of global morbidity and mortality. Understanding sex-related health differences, recognising groups at risk of...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an...
Peter Kim Streatfield, Wasif Ali Khan, Abbas Bhuiya, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi et al.
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population sur...
Godwin Yeboah, João Porto de Albuquerque, Rafael Troilo, Grant Tregonning et al.
This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums in Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based participatory mapping process developed as part of a research project focusing on understanding inequalities in healthc...
Bronwyn Harris, Motunrayo Ajisola, Raisa Alam, Jocelyn Anstey Watkins et al.
OBJECTIVE: Remote or mobile consulting is being promoted to strengthen health systems, deliver universal health coverage and facilitate safe clinical communication during coronavirus disease 2019 and beyond. We explored whether mobile consulting is a viable option for communities with minimal resour...
Improving Health in Slums Collaborative, Pauline Bakibinga, Caroline Kabaria, Ziraba Kasiira et al.
BACKGROUND: Slums or informal settlements characterize most large cities in LMIC. Previous evidence suggests pharmacies may be the most frequently used source of primary care in LMICs but that pharmacy services are of variable quality. However, evidence on pharmacy use and availability is very limit...
Bronwyn Harris, Motunrayo Ajisola, Raisa Alam, Jocelyn Antsley Watkins et al.
Abstract Objective Remote or mobile consulting (mConsulting) is being promoted to strengthen health systems, deliver universal health coverage and facilitate safe clinical communication during COVID-19 and beyond. We explored whether mConsulting is a viable option for communities with minimal resour...
A Lamin, Joacim Rocklöv, Rainer Sauerborn, Osman Sankoh et al.