Soweto and Thembelihle Health and Demographic Surveillance System (SaT-HDSS)
SaT-HDSS is an urban-based HDSS in Soweto and Thembelihle, South Africa, established in 2017 as a component of an international programme on child health entitled Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS). The HDSS aims to provide population-level data for estimating rates of adverse pregnancy and child health outcomes. Baseline census was conducted in 2018, and the study conducts two rounds of follow-up household visits per year. As of 2019, the population under surveillance includes over 120,000 individuals in over 31,000 households in Soweto, Thembelihle and surrounding informal settlements.
Study design
Household panel, Community or village panel, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
124,169 (participants as of 2019)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Soweto and Thembelihle, South Africa in terms of population characteristics, composition and distribution.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2018
Primary Institutions
National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
