The Potential Role of a Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Rural Northern Nigeria to Reduce Maternal and Child Deaths

The Hindu population in Bangladesh declined from 22% to 9% from 1951–2011. This paper analyses longitudinal data from the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System for 1989–2016 to quantify the role of fertility, mortality, and international migration in explaining differential growth rates between Muslims and Hindus. The Hindu population has been growing at a slower rate than adherents of other religions, resulting in a decline in their relative share in the national population. Hindus have lower fertility, higher mortality and higher international out-migration rates than Muslims. According to this analysis, between 1989 and 2016, 54% of lower Hindu growth may be attributable to international out-migration; 41% is attributable to lower fertility, and 5% is attributable to higher mortality. The contribution of migration has declined over time and in last 20 years, lower fertility of Hindus was the primary contributing factor (over 70%) to their declining share of the country’s population.

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Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: The Nahuche Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Northern Nigeria (Nahuche HDSS)

International Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1093/ije/dyu197 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 43 (6) ◽

pp. 1770-1780 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Olatunji Alabi ◽

Henry V Doctor ◽

Abdulazeez Jumare ◽

Nasiru Sahabi ◽

Ahmad Abdulwahab ◽

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Keyword(s):

Surveillance System ◽

Demographic Surveillance System ◽

Northern Nigeria

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Spatial Analysis of Under-five Mortality Clustering in Northern Nigeria: Findings from Nahuche Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Zamfara State

International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health ◽

10.9734/ijtdh/2016/24709 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Olatunji Alabi ◽

David Baloye ◽

Henry Doctor ◽

Olugbenga Oyedokun

Keyword(s):

Spatial Analysis ◽

Surveillance System ◽

Demographic Surveillance System ◽

Northern Nigeria ◽

Under Five

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POPDC proteins and cardiac function

Biochemical Society Transactions ◽

10.1042/bst20190249 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 1393-1404 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Thomas Brand

Keyword(s):

Potential Role ◽

Striated Muscle ◽

Short Review ◽

Effector Proteins ◽

Muscle Disease ◽

Disease Genes ◽

Protein Protein Interaction ◽

Interaction Partners ◽

And Function

Abstract The Popeye domain-containing gene family encodes a novel class of cAMP effector proteins in striated muscle tissue. In this short review, we first introduce the protein family and discuss their structure and function with an emphasis on their role in cyclic AMP signalling. Another focus of this review is the recently discovered role of POPDC genes as striated muscle disease genes, which have been associated with cardiac arrhythmia and muscular dystrophy. The pathological phenotypes observed in patients will be compared with phenotypes present in null and knockin mutations in zebrafish and mouse. A number of protein–protein interaction partners have been discovered and the potential role of POPDC proteins to control the subcellular localization and function of these interacting proteins will be discussed. Finally, we outline several areas, where research is urgently needed.

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