Bangladesh, Ghana, South Africa, Vietnam - The evolving demographic and health transition in four low- and middle-income countries

Reference ID

INDEPTH.GH001.Transitions.v1

Year

1987 - 2009

Country

Bangladesh, Ghana, South Africa, Vietnam

Producer(s)

Brian Houle - School of Demography, The Australian National University
Ayaga Bawah - Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana
Samuel Clark - Department of Sociolog

Collection(s)

The evolving demographic and health transition in four low- and middle-income countries

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

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Apr 06, 2016

Last modified

Apr 07, 2016

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Overview

Identification

Countries

Bangladesh, Ghana, South Africa, Vietnam

Title

The evolving demographic and health transition in four low- and middle-income countries

Study Type

Demographic Surveillance

ID Number

INDEPTH.GH001.Transitions.v1

Version

Version Description

Notes

V1 Original published version

V2 Published version

Overview

Abstract

This study contributes evidence documenting the continued decline in all-cause mortality and changes in the cause of death distribution over time in four developing country populations in Africa and Asia. We present levels and trends in age-specific mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) from four demographic surveillance sites: Agincourt (South Africa), Navrongo (Ghana) in Africa; Filabavi (Vietnam), Matlab (Bangladesh) in Asia. We model mortality using discrete time event history analysis. This study illustrates how data from INDEPTH Network centers can provide a comparative, longitudinal examination of mortality patterns and the epidemiological transition. Health care systems need to be reconfigured to deal simultaneously with continuing challenges of communicable disease and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases that require long-term care. In populations with endemic HIV, long-term care of HIV patients on ART will add to the chronic care needs of the community.

Kind of Data

Event history data

Units of Analysis

Individual

Scope

Notes

Individual exposure and cause of death

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Mortality [N01.224.935.698]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Cause of Death [N01.224.935.698.100]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Life Expectancy [N01.224.935.464]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

Coverage

Geographic Coverage (1)

Demographic surveillance area : Matlab, Bangladesh

Geographic Coverage (2)

Demographic surveillance area : Navrongo, Ghana

Geographic Coverage (3)

Demographic surveillance area : Agincourt, South Africa

Geographic Coverage (4)

Demographic surveillance area : Filabavi, Vietnam

Universe

All resident individuals in the demographic surveillance area

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Brian Houle	School of Demography, The Australian National University
Ayaga Bawah	Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana
Samuel Clark	Department of Sociology, University of Washington, USA
Osman Sankoh	INDEPTH Network, Ghana
Nurul Alam, Abdur Razzaque, Peter Kim Streatfield	International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh
Cornelius Debpuur, Paul Welaga, Abraham Oduro, Abraham Hodgson	Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana
Stephen Tollman, Mark Collinson, Kathleen Kahn	Agincourt Health and Population Unit, South Africa
Tran Khan Toan, Ho Dang Phuc, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc	Filabavi Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Vietnam

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Kobus Herbst	INDEPTH Network	Data Anonymisation
Tathagata Bhattacharjee	INDEPTH Network	Dataset Publication

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
iSHARE2 Technical Team	iS2TT	INDEPTH Network	Documentation of the study
INDEPTH Network	int.indepth	INDEPTH Network	agency
Kobus Herbst	KHe	INDEPTH Network	Documentation author

DDI Document Version

V2.0

DDI Document ID

DDI.INDEPTH.GH001.Transitions.v2