The continuing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa : a workshop summary /

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Author / Creator:	Plewes, Thomas J.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (1 PDF file (x, 37 pages))
Language:	English
Subject:	Epidemiology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. Diseases -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Epidemiology. Health planning -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. Epidemiologic Methods. Health Planning. MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. MEDICAL -- Public Health. Epidemiology. Health planning. Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Diseases -- Epidemiology. Africa South of the Sahara -- epidemiology. Sub-Saharan Africa. Electronic books. Congress. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169748

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Other authors / contributors:	Kinsella, Kevin G. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population. Workshop on the Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011 : University of the Witwatersrand)
ISBN:	9780309266482 0309266483 9780309266499 0309266491
Notes:	Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 22, 2013). Includes bibliographical references. This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health Award N01-OD-4-2139, Task Order 227 to the National Academy of Sciences. English.
Summary:	The public workshop was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 21-22, 2011. The workshop reviewed the changes that have taken place in the past 15 years in this rapidly moving area of inquiry, updated trends and their implications for health policy, coordinated data analysis across demographic surveillance sites and from new surveys and other sources, considered methodological challenges related to dealing with data from demographic surveillance sites, and explored new theoretical perspectives on demographic modeling and their application to modeling the epidemiological transition.
Other form:	Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Steering Committee on the Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Continuing epidemiological transition in sub-saharan africa. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012] 0309266483

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