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9 Future Research Directions
Pages 19-21

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... since the 1960s, when most countries in sub-Saharan Africa achieved their independence, many contextual changes have affected the epidemiological landscape of the continent and the sub-Saharan African region; (b) urbanization, gross domestic product per capita, improved sanitation and water access, improved per capita agricultural production, improved telecommunications, increases in the number of physicians per 1,000 inhabitants, medical advances, and improved nutrition and living standards are major changes that have taken place in sub-Saharan Africa which have led to improvements in survival rates and substantial gains in life expectancy at birth, paving the way for the ongoing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan African countries; (c)
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... According to HISHUB, the minimum data set for understanding epidemiological transitions in order to inform health transitions includes: 1. Reliable unbiased documentation of age- and sex-specific mortality, including the major causes of deaths in the population (civil registration with vital statistics and sentinel or sample mortality surveillance systems with verbal autopsy)
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... Interim investments in sentinel or sample registration systems that provide timely and high-quality longitudinal data on deaths and causes of deaths, combined with a concurrent development of effective civil registration systems for vital statistics; 2. Periodic national cross-sectional omnibus sample surveys of the top 10 major risk factors for the major causes of death; and 3.
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