The Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System – OUAGA HDSS

The collection of « Ouaga Focus »

Ouaga Focus is a two-page scientific newsletter which enables us to publish the latest research findings from the OUAGA HDSS

This publication is intended for the general public, journalists and students as well as policy makers.

Electronic versions of Ouaga Focus are available in both French and English.

 

Printed with the support of Hewlett Foundation.

Edited with the participation of Institut of Research for Development (IRD).

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Issues

2015 – 1 : Fertility and schooling : The Role of Family Network

2015 – 2 : Childhood fever and environmental housing conditions

2015 – 3 : Obstacles to prenatal care and safe deliveries for the urban poor

2015 – 4 : Hypertension among Ouagadougou adult population

2015 – 5 : Child fostering and Education Outcomes

2015 – 6 : Inequities in Child Vaccination among the Urban Poor

2014 – 1 : Cognitive Impairment and Mobility Disability in Old Age

2014 – 2 : Natural methods of contraception also count

2014 – 3 : Living conditions are still difficult

2014 – 4 : Access to water in informal settlements: the hidden reality

2014 – 5 : Family planning after a birth

2014 – 6 : Childhood diarrheal diseases and access to water

2014 – 7 : The burden of fetching water for women

2014 – 8 : Quality of water consumed in informal areas

2014 – 9 : Climate change : what perceptions

2014 – 10 : Water storage methods and health risks

2013 – 1 : A City Surrounded by Children

2013 – 2 : Poverty and Child Health

2013 – 3 : Secondary Schooling: Less Accessible than Primary Schooling

2013 – 4 : Mental Health: An Important Dimension of Health

2013 – 5 : Migration Seems to Have Little Impact on Health

2013 – 6 : Obesity and Hypertension: Major Health Problems

2013 – 7 : Young Migrants in Cities: A Large, Vulnerable Population

2013 – 8 : Who Uses Black-Market Medicines?

2013 – 9 : How to Identify the Poor in Urban Areas?

2013 – 10 : A Program of Social Support for the Most Disadvantaged

2012 – 1 :The Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System

2012 – 2 : Four Dimensions of Vulnerability

2012 – 3 : Ouagadougou's Informal Neighborhoods: Urban Villages?

2012 – 4 : : Are Wealthier Adults More at Risk of Dying?

 

Editorial committee

- Stéphanie Dos Santos (LPED/IRD-AMU et ISSP/UO) – Head of committee

- Bilampoa Gnoumou Thiombiano (ISSP/UO)

- Georges Guiella (ISSP/UO)

- Thomas K. LeGrand (Demography/UdM)

- Gabriel Pictet (The Graduate Institute - Geneva)

- Clémentine Rossier (INED)

- Abradrame Soura (ISSP/UO)