Are health and demographic surveillance system estimates sufficiently generalisable?

Sampling rules do not apply in a Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) that covers exhaustively a district-level population and is not meant to be representative of a national population. We highlight the advantages of HDSS data for causal analysis and identify in the literature the principles of conditional generalisation that best apply to HDSS. A probabilistic view on HDSS data is still justified by the need to model complex causal inference. Accounting for contextual knowledge, reducing omitted-variable bias, detailing order of events, and high statistical power brings credence to HDSS data. Generalisation of causal mechanisms identified in HDSS data is consolidated through systematic comparison and triangulation with national or international data.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Global health action - 10(2017), 1 vom: 02., Seite 1356621

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bocquier, Philippe [VerfasserIn]
Sankoh, Osman [VerfasserIn]
Byass, Peter [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Causal inference
Generalisation
HDSS
Journal Article
Longitudinal data

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 18.09.2018

Date Revised 17.03.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/16549716.2017.1356621

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM274934558