INDEPTH - DSS UNIVERSITIES:
SHORT TERM FELLOWSHIPS
Nairobi DSS, Nairobi Kenya
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Name of site: |
Nairobi
Urban Demographic Surveillance System |
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City/Country: |
Nairobi,
Kenya |
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Site Leader: |
Alex Ezeh |
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Site contact person for this programme: |
Alex
Ezeh
P. O. Box 230, Kilifi, Kenya
Phone +254 41 52Dr.
Alex Ezeh
APHRC, Kenya
P.O.Box 10787, 00100, GPO, Nairobi
Tel : +254 20 2720400/1/2
Email : Aezeh@aphrc.org |
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Short description of site: |
Nairobi
City typifies the phenomenon of rapid urbanization amidst growing urban
poverty in African Cities. Its population grew from 120,000 in 1948 to
2.3 million in 1999 while over 60% of its population is estimated to
languish live below the poverty line and reside in slum settlements
characterized by poor housing and lack of basic essential services
including education, health, and sanitation. The African Population and
Health Research Center (APHRC) - in partnership with PATH, CARE, JHPIEGO,
ITDG, and the Government of Kenya is implementing a program of research
and action that seeks to determine and implement cost-effective
strategies for improving the deteriorating health and livelihood
conditions of the slum residents of Nairobi City. The immediate focus of
this project – known as the Nairobi Urban Health and Poverty Project (NUHPP)
- is to set up cost-effective health and livelihood interventions to
reduce the high disease and mortality burden among slum children. The
Nairobi Urban Demographic Surveillance System (NUDSS) was set up in 2000
in four of the city’s 30+ slums to monitor and evaluate the impact of
health and livelihood interventions on health outcomes. |
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Research objectives: |
The
NUDSS also serves as a general platform for studying linkages between
urbanization, poverty and health. The NUDSS covers about 120,000 people
in 44,000 households, and involves visits to all the households once
every three months to continuously update information on pregnancies and
pregnancy outcomes, migration, episodes of morbidity, health seeking
behavior, mortality and causes of death, livelihood sources, vaccination
coverage, marital status, and school attendance. |
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Priority research areas: |
Use of
DSS for monitoring and evaluating the of impact of health and livelihood
interventions in the urban setting
Poverty and health
Health Equity
Child and maternal health
Migration dynamics and health
Sexual networking and HIV/AIDS
Adult health and mortality
Burden of Disease
Schooling and school drop-out
The social context of ageing in the urban setting
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Sample publications in the last five years: |
“The
Influence of Alcohol, Drugs and Substance Abuse on Sexual Relationships
and Perception of Risk to HIV Infection among Adolescents in the
Informal Settlements of Nairobi”,
Mugisha, F. and Zulu, E.M.
Journal of Youth Studies, September 2004, 7(3):279-293.
“Child morbidity and health care utilization in the slums of Nairobi,
Kenya”
Taffa, N., G. Chepngeno, and Amunyunzu-Nyamongo, M.
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2004
“The triad of poverty, environment and child health in Nairobi’s
informal settlements”
Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, M. and Negussie Taffa.
Journal of Population and Health in developing countries. 2004.Pp. 1-14
(http://www.jhpdc.unc.edu/)
The inequality of maternal health care in urban sub-Saharan Africa in
the 1990s.
Magadi, M. Zulu, E. and Brockerhoff, M.
Population Studies 2003. 57(3): 347-366
“Alcohol, substance and drug use among urban slum adolescents in Nairobi
Kenya”
Mugisha F, Arinaitwe-Mugisha J, & Hagembe B.O.N.
Cities 2003 20(4): 231-240
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Description of areas, or example of research
questions site is interested in for which it will welcome collaboration
from the university: |
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Description of existing staff and competence in data analysis |
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Period of time / length of time site can host a visiting researcher: |
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Will your site welcome a PhD student (supervised by staff in the
population programme) to work on available data to answer questions you
are interested in? |
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Any other issues you think are relevant to the programme / suggestions: |
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For more information, please contact:
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Dr. Osman Sankoh
Deputy Executive Director
INDEPTH Network
Accra, Ghana
Email :
osman.sankoh@indepth-network.org
Tel.: +233 21 519394
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