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1. ENAP metrics workshop held in Dhaka
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Participants of ENAP Metrics Implementation Workshop in Dhaka.
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INDEPTH's Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) Project organised a workshop from 10-12 April, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The ENAP Metrics Implementation Workshop, which started with a site visit and field work on 9 April, aimed at finalising data collection tools and the data collection process to improve survey capture of pregnancy losses.
Other objectives of the workshop included sharing best practices in strengthening the HDSS system on the capture of stillbirths and neonatal deaths and to review the data collection process across sites in capturing data on stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Read more
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2. ABACUS coordinators and ICT personnel trained on REDCap
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Top: Fezile Mdluli from Agincourt HDSS in South Africa (left) and Huong Vu Thi Lan (Filabavi HDSS, Vietnam). Front row from left: Itayi Adam (Agincourt), Daniel Ohene-Kwofie (workshop facilitator from Agincourt), Francis Ameni (INDEPTH Resource and Training Centre, Ghana), Nga Do Thi Thuy (Fillabavi) and Peter Asiedu (INDEPTH Resource and Training Centre, Ghana).
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Coordinators and ICT personnel with INDEPTH’s project on community-based antibiotic access and consumption (ABACUS) have received training on the use of REDCap for data collection and management. The workshop was held from 3 - 5 April 2017 at Wits School of Public health in Johannesburg, South Africa.
REDCap is a free, secure, web-based application designed to support data capture for research studies. The system was developed by a multi-institutional consortium initiated at Vanderbilt University in the US. Read more
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3. Special request – AGM/ISC 2008 group photo
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We are missing the AGM/ISC 2008 (held in Tanzania) group picture in our records at the INDEPTH Resource and Training Centre. We kindly request centre leaders, friends and colleagues who might have kept a copy to share with us. Please send to david.mbulumi@indepth-network.org
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1.CHILILAB HDSS:
Smoking initiation and cessation among youths in Vietnam
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Anti-smoking campaign in Vietnam.
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Study of smoking initiation and cessation is particularly important in adolescent population because smoking prevention and cessation at this time may prevent several health consequences later in life. There is a very limited knowledge about the determinants of smoking initiation and cessation among youths in Vietnam. This limits the development and implementation of appropriately targeted anti-smoking prevention interventions. This study applied pooled data from 3 rounds of a longitudinal survey in the Chi Linh Demographic—Epidemiological Surveillance System (CHILILAB DESS) in a northern province in Vietnam to analyse the determinants of smoking initiation and cessation among youths.
According to the study “Smoking Initiation and Cessation among Youths in Vietnam: A Longitudinal Study Using the Chi Linh Demographic—Epidemiological Surveillance System (CHILILAB DESS)”, smoking initiation and cessation are the result of multifactorial influences of demographic and health behaviours and status. Demographic background (older youths, male, unmarried youths, and youths having informal work) and health behaviours and status (youths who had smoking family members and/or smoking close friends, and had harmful drinking) were more likely to initiate smoking and more difficult to quit smoking. Among these variables, youths who had smoking close-friends had the highest likelihood of both initiating smoking and failed quitting. The results could represent the similar health problems among youths in peri-urban areas in Vietnam. Further, the findings suggested that anti-smoking interventions should involve peer intervention, integrated with the reduction of other unhealthy behaviours such as alcohol consumption, and to focus on adolescents in their very early age (10–14 years old). Read more
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2. Manihca HDSS:
CHW knowledge and management of pre-eclampsia in southern Mozambique
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Health worker and patient in Mozambique.
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Mozambique has drastically improved an array of health indicators in recent years, including maternal mortality rates which decreased 63 % from 1990-2013 but the rates still high. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia constitute the third major cause of maternal death in the country. Women in rural areas, with limited access to health facilities are at greatest risk. This study "Community health worker knowledge and management of pre-eclampsia in southern Mozambique" aimed to assess the current state of knowledge and the regular practices regarding pre-eclampsia and eclampsia by community health workers in southern Mozambique.
This mixed methods study was conducted from 2013 to 2014, in Maputo and Gaza Provinces, southern Mozambique. Self-administered questionnaires, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with CHWs, district medical officers, community health workers' supervisors, Gynaecologists-Obstetricians and matrons. Read more
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Policy Engagement and Communications
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