Cohort Profile: Health and Ageing in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI).,International Journal of Epidemiology

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Cohort Profile: Health and Ageing in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI).
International Journal of Epidemiology ( IF 7.7 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 , DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx247
F Xavier Gómez-Olivé _{1,

2,

3} , Livia Montana ₂ , Ryan G Wagner _{1,

3,

4} , Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula _{1,

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5} , Julia K Rohr ₂ , Kathleen Kahn _{1,

3,

4} , Till Bärnighausen _{6,

7} , Mark Collinson _{1,

3,

4} , David Canning _{2,

7} , Thomas Gaziano _{8,

9} , Joshua A Salomon _{2,

7} , Collin F Payne ₂ , Alisha Wade ₁ , Stephen M Tollman _{1,

3,

4} , Lisa Berkman _{1,

2,

7,

10}

Affiliation

MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
INDEPTH Network, East Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa.
Department of Global Health and Population.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Departments of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Population ageing is a global phenomenon. The United Nations estimates that the world population aged over 60 will have increased 3-fold from 1950 to 2050, to reach 21% of the population.¹ This compositional shift is happening fastest in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).² South Africa in particular is undergoing a dramatic demographic and epidemiological transition, and little is known about the socioeconomic determinants or consequences of transition. This study, following important findings in previous studies in Agincourt^3–6 and South Africa in general,^7–9 is set up to inform us about morbidity, mortality and aetiological factors shaping these trends. Various ageing studies, including the Studies on Global Ageing...

中文翻译：

队列概况：非洲的健康与老龄化：南非 INDEPTH 社区的纵向研究 (HAALSI)。

人口老龄化是一个全球现象。联合国估计，从1950年到2050年，世界60岁以上人口将增加3倍，达到总人口的21%。¹这种结构转变在低收入和中等收入国家 (LMIC) 发生得最快。²特别是南非正在经历急剧的人口和流行病学转变，而人们对转变的社会经济决定因素或后果知之甚少。这项研究是继阿金库尔^3-6和南非总体研究^7-9之前研究的重要发现之后设立的，目的是让我们了解发病率、死亡率和形成这些趋势的病因因素。各种老龄化研究，包括全球老龄化研究......

更新日期：2018-06-19

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