Cohort profile: the Kilifi Vaccine Monitoring Study
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Journal Article
Abstract
The Kilifi Vaccine Monitoring Study (KiVMS) is a long-term continuous cohort study set up to investigate effectiveness, impact, coverage, safety and indirect vaccine effects by recruiting birth cohorts and, where applicable, cohorts of older and adults.
It is based in the area covered by the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kilifi, Kenya, and currently has records of 33 962 children in the birth cohort database.
A major strength of KiVMS is its unique integration of a vaccine registry, a morbidity surveillance system and the largest health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Africa.
It is based in the area covered by the Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kilifi, Kenya, and currently has records of 33 962 children in the birth cohort database.
A major strength of KiVMS is its unique integration of a vaccine registry, a morbidity surveillance system and the largest health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Africa.
Date Issued
2016-10-27
Date Acceptance
2016-06-21
Citation
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
ISSN
1464-3685
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Epidemiology
Copyright Statement
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The Author 2016; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Author 2016; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits
unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Wellcome Trust
Grant Number
091758/B/10/Z
Subjects
Epidemiology
0104 Statistics
1117 Public Health And Health Services
Publication Status
Published