First Announcement for the 2nd International Scientific Conference
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Call for Abstracts
Organized by the International Network of field sites with continuous
Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health in developing
countries (INDEPTH-NETWORK)
Venue: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The exact location will be announced soon.
Sending Abstracts:
Scientific abstracts for presentation at the conference should be
sent to:
The Conference Organizing Committee
Department of Community Health
Faculty of Medicine
Addis Ababa University
P. O. Box 9086
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Or preferably by e-mail
mailto:Hcfp.aau@telecom.net.et
The organizers encourage submission of the title of abstracts as soon
as possible and the deadline for submission of the whole abstract is
October 31st 2001. Junior scientists from INDEPTH sites are espe-
cially encouraged to send articles since there will be few travel
grants that will be awarded on a competitive basis.
Abstracts on the following subjects are preferable:
- Health equity and Gender
- Health research informing policy
- Community based morbidity and mortality studies
- Verbal autopsy and other methods of cause specific mortality
- Migration and Health
- GIS applications in health
- Adult Health and aging
- Health in transition
- Burden of Diseases Analysis
- Issues of networking in health
- Reproductive health, fertility and contraception including
HIV/AIDS
- Malaria
- Analytical methods application to longitudinal Health
- Health systems and Decentralization
Background:
INDEPTH was founded on November 10, 1998 with the purpose of linking
and enhancing the capabilities of existing demographic surveillance
sites worldwide to enable these to continuously monitor the health
and demographic status of their geographically defined populations. A
demographic surveillance system (DSS) provides a platform on which to
base a range of health, social, economic and behavioural studies
Absence of reliable population-based information constitutes a major
and long standing constraint to the articulation of effective policies
and programs aimed at improving the health of the poor, and as such
perpetuates profound inequities in the health. Currently available
sources of population and health data are plagued by lack of coordi-
nation and communication, inadequate standardization of methods, poor
quality, bias in terms of coverage and missing links with policy and
program.
Currently there is a rapidly growing interest in demographic surveil-
lance because of the increased demand for information as a basis for
priority setting, evidence-based planning and overall decision-
making. In addition, the critical and strong contribution of longitu-
dinal data from demographic surveillance sites to Science has been
widely recognized.
The demographic surveillance sites that form the INDEPTH network have
a proven track record in providing high quality population-based in-
formation, often operating in highly resource-constrained environ-
ments. Data generated through these sites are crucial in informing
policy decisions, especially in the areas of resource allocation,
while providing the necessary impetus for highly focused, interven-
tion oriented, research endeavours. They also provide unparalleled
applied training opportunities for health and other professionals,
with a particular emphasis on strengthening national capacities in
evidence- based policy, practice and resource allocations.
INDEPTH is committed to bridging these field sites and to substan-
tially enhancing their capabilities through: technical strengthening,
methodological development, widened applications to policy and prac-
tice and increased interaction between site leaders, researchers and
program managers.
The 2nd INDEPTH International Scientific Conference, hosted by one of
the sites (Butajira) in Ethiopia, is aimed at strengthening the sci-
entific basis of the network, creating visibility and recognition of
the network and its member sites, and stimulating the activities of
the sites. In addition, it would be a forum for sharing experience
among site managers, scientists and researchers from the different
countries that constitute the network.
Damen Haile Mariam
mailto:hcfp.aau@telecom.net.et
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