Manhiça Health and Demographic Surveillance System
The Manhiça Health and Demographic Surveillance System follows over 32,000 individuals living in the district of Manhiça, Mozambique. The demographic surveillance system was expanded in 2014 to cover the entire district, having begun with surveillance of a smaller area in 1996. Inhabited households in the study area were listed and mapped for inclusion, with data collected at household and individual levels for all inhabitants. Each participant living in the study area is issued a unique permanent identification number, enabling adequate follow-up, and linkage to hospital-based morbidity surveillance for children under 15 years of age.
Study design
Cohort - open
Number of participants at first data collection
32,471 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1996
Primary Institutions
Manhiça Health Research Centre (Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, CISM)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Emory University
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, AECID)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
