More detailed regional lipidomics analysis of AD brain samples is required as well as indepth comparisons at different disease stages.
The INDEPTH network at large is today approaching some 40 field sites in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and South America; all generate longitudinal, household-level demographic, health and socioeconomic data, and many are associated with training programs (7).
By employing and building on existing epidemiologic infrastructure and expertise within the INDEPTH network at the Navrongo site that has been developed for other purposes, it has been possible to perform a thorough assessment of this vaccine.
A conceptual framework for translating research into action for NCDs at INDEPTH sites was developed.
Given that the methodologies involved – of counting individual deaths at INDEPTH sites and aggregating upwards, contrasted with taking available data sources and constructing global models to derive national estimates – are completely different, this congruence in findings adds plausibility to both approaches.
This has important implications for future vaccine introductions where such infrastructure at INDEPTH sites and other sites with similar infrastructure could be employed to assure that newly introduced vaccines are safe and that public confidence of vaccination programs is maintained in low- and middle-income countries introducing the vaccine.
The use of this data set allowed for analysis at the physician level, which our PIAA DSP data did not and therefore these studies were able to provide a more indepth description of risk at the individual specialty level.
Plans to archive the data at WHO, INDEPTH and the University of Michigan's National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) to maximise opportunities to share data and provide multiple access portals.
The discussion in this paper is a result of the workshop and we analyse the experience at three INDEPTH sites that have used fingerprint biometrics to show the range of intended use of this technology as well as results to explore its acceptability and technical value.
Our purpose was to recruit researchers who worked as scientists at one of the INDEPTH HDSSs in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, or Indonesia or at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, and who are familiar with the collection and analysis of household surveillance data that include information about health issues.
