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1 août 2018
- doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy075
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DEMOGRAPHIC_SURVEILLANCE_SYSTEM MALARIA MORTALITY RURAL_AREAS MALE_MORTALITY MARRIAGE AIDS SENEGAL FEMALE_MORTALITY FERTILITY SEXUALITYSujets proches
Patients--Mortality Nineties (Twentieth century decade) 1990s 90s (Twentieth century decade) Mortality, Law of Ague Chills and fever Intermittent fever Malarial fever Wellness Personal health Fecundity Biography--HealthCiter ce document
Gilles Pison et al., « HDSS Profile: Mlomp Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Mlomp HDSS), Senegal », Archined : l'archive ouverte de l'INED, ID : 10.1093/ije/dyy075
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The Mlomp Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is located in southwest Senegal, near the border with Guinea-Bissau. The area is 500 km from the national capital, Dakar. The population under surveillance is rural and in 2015 comprised 8751 inhabitants living in 11 villages. Data have been collected through annual rounds since the surveillance started in 1985. On each visit, investigators review the composition of all households, check the lists of people who were present in each household the previous year and gather information about births, marriages, migrations and deaths (including their causes) since then. Data are partly open access and may be shared under a collaboration agreement. Total fertility in Mlomp declined in the 1980s and 1990s down to slightly more than three children per woman on average at the beginning of the 2000s, and has since remained at this relatively low level for a rural area of Western Africa. Malaria-related mortality increased 7-fold in Mlomp in the early 1990s following the appearance and spread of malaria strains that were resistant to chloroquine; this rise was followed by a dramatic decline from 2000 onwards due to new antimalaria strategy developed at the national level. In collaboration with ‘Agence nationale de la statistique et de la démographie’ (National statistical office of Senegal), the Mlomp HDSS is used to validate national censuses and to test new techniques for improving data collection.