The Health and Occupation Research Network: An Evolving Surveillance System

The Health and Occupation Research Network: An Evolving Surveillance System

Vital to the prevention of work-related ill-health (WRIH) is the availability of good quality data regarding WRIH burden and risks. Physician-based surveillance systems such as The Health and Occupation Research (THOR) network in the UK are often established in response to limitations of statutory, compensation-based systems for addressing certain epidemiological aspects of disease surveillance...

Health research systems: an evolving framework.

Active Research Care with Surveillance Units of Community-Based Lifestyle:A New Approach in HealthCare Research System

*Research care, active lifestyle community with sentinel sites: a new approach in health research system

HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROFILE Profile: The Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System

Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Dakar, Sénégal, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Université de Montréal, Canada, Independent Consultant, Senegal, University of Ottawa, Canada, Population Council...

Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: Bandafassi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Bandafassi HDSS), Senegal

The Bandafassi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Bandafassi HDSS) is located in south-eastern Senegal, near the borders with Mali and Guinea. The area is 700 km from the national capital, Dakar. The population under surveillance is rural and in 2012 comprised 13 378 inhabitants living in 42 villages. Established in 1970, originally for genetic studies, and initially covering only vill...