India - Vadu INDEPTH Core Dataset 2009-2010

Reference ID

INDEPTH.IN021.2.v4

Year

2002 - 2003

Country

India

Producer(s)

Dr. Sanjay Juvekar - VADU HDSS, KEMHRC (IN021)

Sponsor(s)

Self Funded - -

Collection(s)

Asia & Oceania Region – Release 2013

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Jun 18, 2013

Last modified

Jul 22, 2015

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Overview

Identification

Country

India

Title

Vadu INDEPTH Core Dataset 2009-2010

Study Type

Demographic Surveillance

Series Information

It is a longitudinal survey, the data collection for HDSS Vadu started in 2002. We do a six monthly data collection. As of 31st December 2012, we have completed 19 rounds.

ID Number

INDEPTH.IN021.2.v4

Version

Version Description

2.v4

Production Date

2013-06-18

Notes

1.v1 : Version extracted from original Vadu HDSS operational database 2002 - 2010 for internal use only

2.v4 : Cleaned and anonymised version extracted from original Vadu HDSS operational database 2009 - 2010 for public access

Overview

Abstract

Vadu Rural Health Program, KEM Hospital Research Centre Pune has a rich tradition in health care and development being in the forefront of needs-based, issue-driven research over almost 35 years. During the decades of 1980 and 1990 the research at Vadu focused on mother and child with epidemiological and social science research exploring low birth weight, child survival, maternal mortality, safe abortion and domestic violence. The research portfolio has ever since expanded to include adult health and aging, non-communicable and communicable diseases and to clinical trials in recent years. It started with establishment of Health and Demographic Surveillance System at Vadu (HDSS Vadu) in August, 2002 that seeks to establish a quasi-experimental design setting to allow evaluation of impact of health interventions as well as monitor secular trends in diseases, risk factors and health behavior of humans.

Vadu has struck research alliances with Regional, National and International Organizations. The iSHARE (www.indepth-ishare.org )- is a novel globally applicable solution from Vadu for enabling INDEPTH Network members to share their data on the web. IMVAC is an international collaboration with the Chest Research Foundation, Pune and the Imperial College, London to better understand COPD in developing world context. The Influenza Disease Burden in India (IDBI) study, in partnership with the National Institute of Virology, Pune and CDC Atlanta, is well placed to follow the influenza in rural areas. Vadu's foray into large community based GCP compliant phase II/III vaccine trials for meningitis, measles, HIB, typhoid and rota-virus is another important step in getting safe, effective and yet less expensive/affordable indigenously produced vaccines to licensure and use in India and globally. A recent strategic 5-year award jointly with paediatrics department of KEM, from the Dept. of Biotechnology, GOI is helping us build capacity to develop a Core Vaccine Research Unit at Vadu.

An exciting array of Translational Research (G2P studies) is ongoing at Vadu in collaboration with Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, GOI from both Ayurvedic and disease perspective. Vadu has extensively contributed to Project Ayurgenomics: Integration of Ayurveda to Genomics for field based research. 10000 volunteers from Vadu area participated in this study. Vadu has also developed a detailed phenotyping (DP) unit and molecular biology laboratory for primary investigations. The DP unit includes State of the art labs for heart rate variability testing, spirometry, skin testing, anthropometry and gustatory testing. Probably the only molecular biology lab in rural area, our lab is well equipped for RNA and DNA isolation and detection besides a dedicated fully equipped section for the clinical trials laboratory work.

Today's strength of Vadu is its ability to integrate research among and rational medical service delivery to the populations with support from the community and with capacity building of this very community in conducting community or hospital based research. Vadu strives to address its research needs through partnerships and collaborations with national and international institutions guided by principles of interdependence, equality, technology transfer and joint data ownership as also authorship. Above all, we believe in ethics and practice in conducting utmost ethical research.

We independently track vital events including births, deaths, causes of death, pregnancy outcome, migrations and marital status changes and serves to monitor trends in fertility and mortality inter alia over time.

The word "Demographic Surveillance" means to keep close track of the population dynamics. Vadu HDSS deals with keeping track of health issues and demographic changes in Vadu rural health program (VRHP) area. It is one of the most promising projects of National relevance that aims at establishing a quasi-experimental intervention research setting with objectives.

1. To create a longitudinal data base for

a. Efficient service delivery

b. Future research

c. Linking all past micro-studies in Vadu area

2. Monitoring trends in public health problems

3. Keeping track of population dynamics

4. Evaluation of intervention services

Kind of Data

Event history data

Units of Analysis

Individual

Scope

Notes

The Scope of demographic surveillance includes: HOUSEHOLD: demographic characteristics, poor households, living conditions, social security, access to facilities and services, education levels, employment status, migration, fertility, mortality

- Household: Household characteristics, household listing, occupation,education and maternal mortality.

- Individual: Individual listing, Education, Occupation, Marital Status and Movements.

- Women: Pregnancy Monitoring

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Demography [N01.224]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Emigration and Immigration [N01.224.625.350]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Mortality [N01.224.935.698]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Cause of Death [N01.224.935.698.100]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Birth Rate [N01.224.935.849.500]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

Keywords

Fertility, Mortality, Migration

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Vadu HDSS falls in two administrative blocks namely:

1) Shirur

2) Haweli

of Pune district in Maharashtra in western India.

It covers an area of approximately 232 square kilometers

Universe

Vadu HDSS covers as many as 52,700 households having 140,000 population spread across 22 villages. The dataset contains the events of all individuals ever resident during the study period (1 Jan 2009 to 31 Dec 2010)

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Sanjay Juvekar	VADU HDSS, KEMHRC (IN021)

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
The International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health, Accra Ghana		Offered technical support through in establishemnt of Vadu HDSS and its full membership to Vadu HDSS.
Hanif Shaikh	VADU HDSS, KEMHRC Pune (IN021)	Manager of Vadu HDSS
Bharat Chaudhary	VADU HDSS, KEMHRC Pune (IN021)	Supervisor and Facilitation of Data Collection
Somnath Sambhudas	INDEPTH Network and Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Data Processing and Management
Girish Dayma	VADU HDSS, KEMHRC Pune (IN021)	Quality Assurance
Field Research Assistants/ Field Research Assistants/ Field Research Assistants / Supervisors	VADU HDSS, KEMHRC Pune (IN021)	Data Collection

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Self Funded

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Dr. Siddhi Vinayak Hirve	Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Conceptualized formation and establishment of Vadu HDSS. Also offered seed money from his Fellowship received from Bill and Milinda Gates Institution of Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Trupti Varpe	Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Data management software development (from 2003 to 2012)
Padma Sambhudas (Khuha)	I2IT, Pune	Data management software development (from 2003 to 2012)
Neeraj Kashyap	Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Data management software development (from 2003 to 2012)
Tathagata Bhattacharjee	INDEPTH Network and Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Software development wef 2012
Nidhi Patharia	INDEPTH Network and Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Vadu HDSS website management
Rajlaxmi Rangan	KEMHRC, Pune	Administration and Finance
Ramesh pardeshi	Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Site Administration
Shirish Kathale	Vadu HDSS, KEMHRC Pune	Site Administration
Dr V S Padbidri	KEMHRC, Pune	Advise and Support

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
iSHARE2 Technical Team	iS2TT	INDEPTH Network	Documentation of the study
Vadu	IN021	KEMHRC	Documentation of the study
INDEPTH Network	int.INDEPTH	INDEPTH Network	Agency
Nidhi Patharia	NP	IN021	DDI Author
Tathagata Bhattacharjee	TB	IN021	DDI Author

Date of Metadata Production

2015-07-22

DDI Document Version

Version 1 (January 2013)

Version 2 (January 2013)

Version 3 (January 2013)

Version 4 (June 2013)

Version 5 (June 2013)

Version 6 (June 2013)

Version 7 (June 2013)

Version 8 (July 2013)

Version 9 (July 2013)

Version 10 (July 2015)

DDI Document ID

DDI.INDEPTH.IN021.2.v10