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. 2019 Oct 9;69(Suppl 4):S274-S279.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz609.

Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems Within the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network

Solveig A Cunningham  1 , Nida I Shaikh  1 , Ariel Nhacolo  2 , Pratima L Raghunathan  3 , Karen Kotloff  4 , Abu Mohd Naser  1 , Melkamu M Mengesha  5 , Sunday A Adedini  6   7 , Thomas Misore  8 , Uma U Onuwchekwa  9 , Mary Claire Worrell  3 , Shams El Arifeen  10 , Nega Assefa  5 , Atique I Chowdhury  10 , Reinhard Kaiser  11 , Shabir A Madhi  6   12 , Ashka Mehta  4 , David Obor  8 , Charfudin Sacoor  2 , Samba O Sow  9 , Milagritos D Tapia  4 , Amanda L Wilkinson  3 , Robert F Breiman  1
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Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems Within the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network

Solveig A Cunningham et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

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Abstract

Health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSSs) provide a foundation for characterizing and defining priorities and strategies for improving population health. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) project aims to inform policy to prevent child deaths through generating causes of death from surveillance data combined with innovative diagnostic and laboratory methods. Six of the 7 sites that constitute the CHAMPS network have active HDSSs: Mozambique, Mali, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bangladesh, and South Africa; the seventh, in Sierra Leone, is in the early planning stages. This article describes the network of CHAMPS HDSSs and their role in the CHAMPS project. To generate actionable health and demographic data to prevent child deaths, the network depends on reliable demographic surveillance, and the HDSSs play this crucial role.

Keywords: child death; data methodology; demographic surveillance; population health.

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