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Evaluation of a population mobility, mortality, and birth surveillance system in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Community-based surveillance of infectious diseases: a systematic review of drivers of success.BMJ global health · 2022Pooled it
- Estimating death rates in complex humanitarian emergencies using the network survival method.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Community-based maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response: a comparative case study of implementation realities from humanitarian contexts.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Maternal mortality in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: a 10-year multi-zonal institutional death review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Complexities of implementing Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response in crisis-affected contexts: a comparative case study.Conflict and health · 2024Article
- Implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response and related death review interventions in humanitarian settings: A scoping review.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Sexual and reproductive health implementation research in humanitarian contexts: a scoping review.Reproductive health · 2024Article
- Demographic and Clinical Factors Affecting Pediatric Survival in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Estimating stillbirth and neonatal mortality rate among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, September 2017 to December 2018: a prospective surveillance.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR: are the population saying what they think NGO's want to hear?Conflict and health · 2021Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic is deepening the health crisis in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Article
- People-centred surveillance: a narrative review of community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2020Review
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Abstract
Prospective, community-based surveillance systems for measuring birth, death, and population movement rates may have advantages over the 'gold-standard' retrospective household survey in humanitarian contexts. A community-based, monthly surveillance system was established in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in partnership with a local implementing partner and the national ministry of health. Data were collected on the occurrence of births, deaths, arrivals, and departures over the course of one year, and a retrospective survey was conducted at the end of the period to validate the information. Discrepancies between the two approaches were resolved by a third visit to the households with discordant records. The study found that the surveillance system was superior in terms of its specificity and sensitivity in measuring crude mortality and birth rates as compared to the survey, demonstrating the method's potential to measure accurately important population-level health metrics in an insecure setting in a timely, community-acceptable manner.
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