Search Results - "Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W"
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Association of alcohol use and multimorbidity among adults aged 40 years and above in rural South Africa
Published in Scientific reports (14-05-2023)“…We assessed the prevalence of reported alcohol use and its association with multimorbidity among adults aged 40 years and above in a rural, transitioning South…”
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Local Network Interaction as a Mechanism for Wealth Inequality
Published in Nature communications (22-06-2024)“…Given limited institutional resources, low-income populations often rely on social networks to improve their socioeconomic outcomes. However, it remains in…”
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Publisher Correction: Local network interaction as a mechanism for wealth inequality
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Assessing Changes in Household Socioeconomic Status in Rural South Africa, 2001–2013: A Distributional Analysis Using Household Asset Indicators
Published in Social indicators research (01-09-2017)“…Understanding the distribution of socioeconomic status (SES) and its temporal dynamics within a population is critical to ensure that policies and…”
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Progression of the epidemiological transition in a rural South African setting: findings from population surveillance in Agincourt, 1993-2013
Published in BMC public health (10-05-2017)“…Virtually all low- and middle-income countries are undergoing an epidemiological transition whose progression is more varied than experienced in high-income…”
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Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
Published in Demography (01-02-2024)“…Investigations into household structure in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) provide important insight into how families manage domestic life in…”
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Linking the timing of a mother's and child's death: Comparative evidence from two rural South African population-based surveillance studies, 2000-2015
Published in PloS one (08-02-2021)“…The effect of the period before a mother's death on child survival has been assessed in only a few studies. We conducted a comparative investigation of the…”
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Cardiometabolic risk in a population of older adults with multiple co-morbidities in rural south africa: the HAALSI (Health and Aging in Africa: longitudinal studies of INDEPTH communities) study
Published in BMC public health (17-02-2017)“…A consequence of the widespread uptake of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is that the older South African population will experience an increase in life…”
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Twin epidemics: the effects of HIV and systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa, 2010-2019
Published in BMC public health (24-02-2022)“…Sub-Saharan African settings are experiencing dual epidemics of HIV and hypertension. We investigate effects of each condition on mortality and examine whether…”
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Socioeconomic differences in mortality in the antiretroviral therapy era in Agincourt, rural South Africa, 2001–13: a population surveillance analysis
Published in The Lancet global health (01-09-2017)“…Understanding the effects of socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes is important to implement specific preventive actions. We assessed socioeconomic…”
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Explainable Stacked Ensemble Deep Learning (SEDL) Framework to Determine Cause of Death from Verbal Autopsies
Published in Machine learning and knowledge extraction (01-12-2023)“…Verbal autopsies (VA) are commonly used in Low- and Medium-Income Countries (LMIC) to determine cause of death (CoD) where death occurs outside clinical…”
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The effects of HIV and systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa, 2010–2019: a data note
Published in BMC research notes (12-09-2023)“…Abstract Objectives South Africa is experiencing both HIV and hypertension epidemics. Data were compiled for a study to identify effects of HIV and high…”
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Prevalence and correlates of frailty in an older rural African population: findings from the HAALSI cohort study
Published in BMC geriatrics (28-12-2017)“…Frailty is a key predictor of death and dependency, yet little is known about frailty in sub-Saharan Africa despite rapid population ageing. We describe the…”
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Performance evaluation of machine learning and Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy (CCVA) algorithms for cause of death determination: A comparative analysis of data from rural South Africa
Published in Frontiers in public health (27-09-2022)“…Computer Coded Verbal Autopsy (CCVA) algorithms are commonly used to determine the cause of death (CoD) from questionnaire responses extracted from verbal…”
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HIV Status and Antiretroviral Therapy as Predictors of Disability among Older South Africans: Overall Association and Moderation by Body Mass Index
Published in Journal of aging and health (01-12-2020)“…Objectives: Among older people living with HIV (PLWH) and comparable individuals without HIV, we evaluated whether associations of HIV and antiretroviral…”
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Completeness of birth and death registration in a rural area of South Africa: the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance, 1992-2014
Published in Global health action (01-01-2016)“…Completeness of vital registration remains very low in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural areas. To investigate trends and factors in completeness of…”
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A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa
Published in PLoS medicine (01-12-2015)“…Reflecting on under-five mortality, Peter Byass and colleagues consider how some countries may fail to meet millennium development goal targets despite making…”
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Epidemiology of chronic multimorbidity and temporary migration in a rural South African community in health transition: A cross-sectional population-based analysis
Published in Frontiers in Epidemiology (Online) (21-03-2023)“…In sub-Saharan African settings, the increasing non-communicable disease mortality is linked to migration, which disproportionately exposes sub-populations to…”
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Pregnancy-related healthcare utilisation in Agincourt, South Africa, 1993–2018: a longitudinal surveillance study of rural mothers
Published in BMJ global health (01-10-2021)“…IntroductionPregnancy-related health services, an important mediator of global health priorities, require robust health infrastructure. We described…”
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Two decades of mortality change in rural northeast South Africa
Published in Global health action (01-01-2014)“…The MRC/Wits University Agincourt research centre, part of the INDEPTH Network, has documented mortality in a defined population in the rural northeast of…”
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