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Kaloleni-Rabai HDSS

Kaloleni-Rabai HDSS is a HDSS based in Kenya.

Population: 103,746

Kilifi County · Kenya Cohort site Kenya

About the cohort

The Kaloleni/Rabai Community Health and Demographic Surveillance System was set up to: (i) strengthen the capacity of the local department of health for collection, processing and use of population-level health and vital events, and (ii) provide a platform serving the Aga Khan University's needs for population level research and academic programming.

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Centred on the Mariakani Township in the Kaloleni Sub-county in the coastal region of Kenya, baseline data collection between February and June 2017 and registered 78 183 residents within 13 778 households of a geographically defined area. This population cohort originally followed up biannually and now annually, regularly updates demographic, socioeconomic, health, vital events and migration status data within a longitudinal database.

Information is also collected on orphanhood and school attendance of children, a range of RMNCH indicator data as well as use of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) indicators. Most recently the database also included cause of death data (,i. e. , verbal autopsy).

The Kaloleni/Rabai Community Health and Demographic Surveillance System is nested on the Government's community health strategy, utilizing and enhancing the capacity of local networks of Community Health Volunteers and Ministry of Health personnel working in the community to generate, interpret and use their own data for planning and decision making.