Title The continuing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa : a workshop summary / Thomas J. Plewes and Kevin Kinsella, rapporteurs ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info.	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
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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.
Funding	This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health Award N01-OD-4-2139, Task Order 227 to the National Academy of Sciences.
Contents	The Changing Context of the Transition in sub-Saharan Africa -- Mortality and Causes of Death -- Risk Factor Transitions: Exposures and Comparative Risk Assessment -- The Role of Migration -- Health Financing in sub-Saharan Africa -- Data Collection and Validation in Resource-Poor Settings -- The Epidemiological Transition in Africa: Are There Lessons from Asia? -- Future Research Directions -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B Participant List -- Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Presenters.
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Subject	Epidemiologic Methods.
	Health Planning.
	Africa South of the Sahara -- epidemiology.
	Epidemiology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
	Epidemiology.
	Sub-Saharan Africa.
	Diseases -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Epidemiology.
	Diseases.
	Health planning -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
	Health planning.
	Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Diseases -- Epidemiology.
Genre/Form	Congress.
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author	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)
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 (DLC) 2012538703 (OCoLC)815768190
ISBN	9780309266482
	0309266483
	9780309266499
	0309266491

Title The continuing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa : a workshop summary / Thomas J. Plewes and Kevin Kinsella, rapporteurs ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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