PMID- 19021114
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090127
LR  - 20181201
IS  - 1970-7096 (Electronic)
IS  - 1827-1987 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008 Nov
TI  - Demographic and health surveillance of mobile pastoralists in Chad: integration 
      of biometric fingerprint identification into a geographical information system.
PG  - 113-24
AB  - There is a pressing need for baseline demographic and health-related data to 
      plan, implement and evaluate health interventions in developing countries, and to 
      monitor progress towards international development goals. However, mobile 
      pastoralists, i.e. people who depend on a livestock production system and follow 
      their herds as they move, remain marginalized from rural development plans and 
      interventions. The fact that mobile people are hard to reach and stay in contact 
      with is a plausible reason why they are underrepresented in national censuses 
      and/or alternative sequential sample survey systems. We present a 
      proof-of-concept of monitoring highly mobile, pastoral people by recording 
      demographic and health-related data from 933 women and 2020 children and 
      establishing a biometric identification system (BIS) based on the registration 
      and identification of digital fingerprints. Although only 22 women, representing 
      2.4% of the total registered women, were encountered twice in the four survey 
      rounds, the approach implemented is shown to be feasible. The BIS described here 
      is linked to a geographical information system to facilitate the creation of the 
      first health and demographic surveillance system in a mobile, pastoralist 
      setting. Our ultimate goal is to implement and monitor interventions with the 
      "one health" concept, thus integrating and improving human, animal and ecosystem 
      health.
FAU - Weibel, Daniel
AU  - Weibel D
AD  - Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, P.O. Box, 
      CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland. daniel.weibel@unibas.ch
FAU - Schelling, Esther
AU  - Schelling E
FAU - Bonfoh, Bassirou
AU  - Bonfoh B
FAU - Utzinger, Jurg
AU  - Utzinger J
FAU - Hattendorf, Jan
AU  - Hattendorf J
FAU - Abdoulaye, Mahamat
AU  - Abdoulaye M
FAU - Madjiade, Toguina
AU  - Madjiade T
FAU - Zinsstag, Jakob
AU  - Zinsstag J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Italy
TA  - Geospat Health
JT  - Geospatial health
JID - 101302943
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Animal Husbandry
MH  - Animals
MH  - Animals, Domestic
MH  - Biometry/*methods
MH  - Chad
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - *Dermatoglyphics
MH  - Environment
MH  - Family Characteristics/ethnology
MH  - Feasibility Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - *Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Health Planning
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Immunization Programs
MH  - Population Surveillance/*methods
MH  - Registries
MH  - Seasons
MH  - Transients and Migrants/classification/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Vaccination/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2008/11/21 09:00
MHDA- 2009/01/28 09:00
CRDT- 2008/11/21 09:00
PHST- 2008/11/21 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/01/28 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/11/21 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.4081/gh.2008.237 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Geospat Health. 2008 Nov;3(1):113-24. doi: 10.4081/gh.2008.237.