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INDEPTH Monograph Series
Series Title: Population and Health in Developing Countries
The INDEPTH monograph series is a compilation of comparative data provided by member sites. They are focused on specific topics. The monograph series is a key network output that demonstrates INDEPTH’s ability to co-ordinate the activities of individual field sites to create a network-level product that was previously unavailable to governments, donors and research organisations. The series provides valuable visibility and credibility to INDEPTH, but also represents a first step in harnessing the collective power of INDEPTH member sites. It provides a new EMPIRICAL understanding of health and social issues that will help maximise the impact of research on policies and programmes in developing countries.
Published Volumes
Volume 1: Population, Health and Survival at INDEPTH Sites
The first major network product is Volume 1 – Population,
Health and Survival at INDEPTH Sites – which was published in January 2002
by IDRC, Ottawa Canada. 356pp; ISBN: 0-88936-948-8.
This first volume presents age-specific mortality data for INDEPTH field sites and contributes new knowledge on African and Asian mortality patterns in an era of HIV/AIDS. Within the monograph, each participating DSS site has contributed a chapter in which it provides a profile of the site and the data it is contributing.
In addition to the site profile chapters, the monograph includes chapters that describe the basic methodology employed by all of the field sites and two chapters that compare and summarise the mortality data across all sites, using an empirically derived INDEPTH standard population.
This volume is currently available online. The site profiles are available on the INDEPTH MEMBER SITES Page.
Volume 2:INDEPTH Model Life Tables for Sub-Saharan Africa- Published August 2004
Model life tables provide ways of deriving accurate mortality
schedules or predicting future trends
from scanty data. In settings where
accurate data are unavailable, these provide invaluable tools for estimating
mortality conditions among populations. Constructing model life models requires
the availability of accurate empirical life tables that depict the different
patterns of age-specific risks of death in the populations covered. Starting in
the early 1960s, a number of field-based research stations were established to
collect longitudinal data on births, deaths and migrations covering some
geographic areas in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Such unique data sets for the
developing world make it possible to know the mortality levels and patterns of
major regions that have often been characterized as data-poor settings. In the
late 1980s, these research sites teamed up to form an international network,
INDEPTH. This book presents model life tables for Africa using accurate
empirical data from 19 INDEPTH demographic surveillance system sites throughout
sub-Saharan Africa. A modified Brass logic system is used to produce mortality
models that are unique in that they incorporate for the first time empirical and
accurate data representing prevailing mortality patterns in sub-Saharan
Africa, taking into account the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Also available online at:
https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0%207546%204003%205
Volume 3: Measuring Health Equity in Small Areas: Findings from Demographic Surveillance Systems
The objective of the
health equity study is to determine the relationship between specific,
individual-level and household-level socioeconomic factors and inequality of
health outcomes, in order to assist programme and policy makers to overcome
health status disparities and improve overall health status. Specifically, the
study intended to examine how gender, education, occupation, social connectivity
and other socio-economic status proxies (e.g. housing and water source) relate
to mortality in various population subgroups. This study involved the efforts
of thirteen DSS sites located in various parts of Africa and Asia.
Volume 3 is therefore an
outgrowth of the collective work of thirteen INDEPTH member sites.
Forthcoming Volumes
Volume 4: Causes of Death at INDEPTH Sites
The
causes of death determined by verbal post-mortem as well as hospital recording
have been collated from 15 INDEPTH sites. The chapters from the respective sites
have been used for comparative analysis. It is envisaged that this monograph
with reliable cause-specific mortality data for the participating sites will be
extremely valuable in determining control activities and implications for
research agenda in our sites.