Issue 1/2007
Content (15 Articles)
Risk factor studies of age-at-onset in a sample ascertained for Parkinson disease affected sibling pairs: a cautionary tale
Jemma B Wilk, Timothy L Lash
Early efforts in modeling the incubation period of infectious diseases with an acute course of illness
Hiroshi Nishiura
Age standardisation – an indigenous standard?
Bridget Robson, Gordon Purdie, Fiona Cram, Shirley Simmonds
Assessing household wealth in health studies in developing countries: a comparison of participatory wealth ranking and survey techniques from rural South Africa
James R Hargreaves, Linda A Morison, John SS Gear, Julia C Kim, Mzamani B Makhubele, John DH Porter, Charlotte Watts, Paul M Pronyk
The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania
Kizito Shirima, Oscar Mukasa, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Fatuma Manzi, Davis John, Adiel Mushi, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Marcel Tanner, Hassan Mshinda, David Schellenberg
Sampling in health geography: reconciling geographical objectives and probabilistic methods. An example of a health survey in Vientiane (Lao PDR)
Julie Vallée, Marc Souris, Florence Fournet, Audrey Bochaton, Virginie Mobillion, Karine Peyronnie, Gérard Salem
Optimisation of the T-square sampling method to estimate population sizes
Kristof Bostoen, Zaid Chalabi, Rebecca F Grais
Don't spin the pen: two alternative methods for second-stage sampling in urban cluster surveys
Rebecca F Grais, Angela MC Rose, Jean-Paul Guthmann
Wanted: studies on mortality estimation methods for humanitarian emergencies, suggestions for future research
A review of methodology and analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys conducted in humanitarian emergencies from October 1993 to April 2004
Claudine Prudhon, Paul B Spiegel
Mortality and nutrition surveys by Non-Governmental organisations. Perspectives from the CE-DAT database
Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Who should be undertaking population-based surveys in humanitarian emergencies?
Paul B Spiegel
Methods for health surveys in difficult settings: charting progress, moving forward
Kristof Bostoen, Oleg O Bilukha, Bridget Fenn, Oliver W Morgan, Clarence C Tam, Annemarie ter Veen, Francesco Checchi
Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain
Ben G Armstrong, Helen Dolk, Sam Pattenden, Martine Vrijheid, Maria Loane, Judith Rankin, Chris E Dunn, Chris Grundy, Lenore Abramsky, Patricia A Boyd, David Stone, Diana Wellesley
Estimating the role of casual contact from the community in transmission of Bordetella pertussis to young infants
Aaron M Wendelboe, Michael G Hudgens, Charles Poole, Annelies Van Rie