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ArticleBMJ global health2026

Beyond the Demographic and Health Survey: on the past and future of population health surveillance.

John Nott, Blessings Kaunda-Khangamwa, Don P Mathanga, Jil Molenaar, Bertrand Taithe, Chimwemwe Phiri, Jesman Chintsanya, Alister Munthali

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Article in BMJ global health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

John NottThe University of Edinburgh Institute for Studies of Science Technology and Innovation, Edinburgh, UK john.nott@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-5942
Blessings Kaunda-KhangamwaKamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi.
Don P MathangaKamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi.
Jil MolenaarUniversity of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4154-6478
Bertrand TaitheHumanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7842-6800
Chimwemwe PhiriHumanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Jesman ChintsanyaDepartment of Demography, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.
Alister MunthaliPalm Consulting Ltd, Zomba, Malawi.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Cross-sectional surveyEpidemiologyMedical demography

Identifiers

PMID41708140
PMCPMC12918669

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