Viet Nam - FilaBavi HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1999-2012 Release 2015

Reference ID

INDEPTH.VN012.CMD2012.V1

Year

1999

Country

Viet Nam

Producer(s)

Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc - Ha Noi Medical University

Sponsor(s)

Sida/SAREC - -
INDEPTH - -

Collection(s)

Asia & Oceania Region – Release 2015

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Jun 30, 2015

Last modified

Jul 27, 2015

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73901

Overview

Identification

Countries

Viet Nam,

Title

FilaBavi HDSS INDEPTH Core Dataset 1999-2012 Release 2015

Study Type

Demographic Surveillance

Series Information

3 follow-up rounds a year (1999)

4 follow-up rounds a year (2000 - 2011)

3 follow-up rounds a year (2012)

1 follow-up round a year (2013 - 2014)

Demographic surveillances every 2 years (1999, 2001, ..., 2011, 2013)

ID Number

INDEPTH.VN012.CMD2012.V1

Version

Version Description

2011.V4: Updated version

2012.V1: Updated version

Production Date

2015-06-09

Notes

Develped during iSHARE2 workshop in 2013/10/22

Updateed during Refresher iSHARE2 workshop in 2015/6/9

Overview

Abstract

Although Vietnam initiated health sector reform in 1989, attempting to mobilize more resources for health, make the health sector more responsive, and improve equity in healthcare requires good data for formulating and monitoring change. Although there have been some cross-sectional surveys and publications such as the Ministry of Health's ''Health Statistics Yearbook'', there remained a lack of appropriate data. Thus, in1996, the Health Systems Research Project (HSRP), a collaboration between Vietnamese and Swedish public health scientists, identified the need for a field site for this purpose. With the assistance of Sida/SAREC, FilaBavi, an epidemiological field laboratory sited in the Bavi District, was created.

Many other developing countries have experienced similar problems linked to the lack of appropriate data and information at the community level for policy makers and health managers. After a workshop organized in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 9 to 12 November 1998, a network called INDEPTH (International Network of field sites with continuous Demographic Evaluation of Population and Their Health in developing countries) was constituted, now consisting of 31 sites from 17 countries, including FilaBavi (www.indepth-network.net).

FilaBavi's overall aim was to implement a longitudinal epidemiological surveillance system in the Bavi District of Vietnam to generate basic health and healthcare data, supply information for health planning, serve as a background and sampling frame for specific studies, and constitute a setting for epidemiological training of research students. Specific aims included:

- Developing an epidemiological surveillance system among a representative sample of the population in Bavi District, Hatay Province, Vietnam;

- Generating basic health data, e.g. on fertility and mortality, in order to supply information for health planning;

- Constituting a setting for epidemiological research training of Vietnamese and Swedish research students;

- Providing household and individual background data, a sampling frame, and a professional field organization for specific studies, in order to economize on resources and increase cost

Effectiveness in research and research training;

- Serving as an appropriate research setting for intervention studies, based on findings generated by the field laboratory, and health priority discussions with the community and relevant

Authorities.

Kind of Data

Event history data

Units of Analysis

Individual

Scope

Notes

The Scope of demographic surveillance includes demographic characteristics, households, living conditions, education levels, employment status, migration, fertility, mortality, etc

- 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
Health [N01.400]	MeSH	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Bavi is a district in northern Vietnam, 60 km west of Hanoi. The District covers 410 km2, including lowland, highland, and mountainous areas, and ranges in altitude from 20 to 1297

metres above sea level. The District consists of 32 communes, with an average of 532 m2 used for agriculture per capita. The climate is typical of northern Vietnam, with a monsoon tropical climate: a wet season from June to October with high temperatures, heavy rainfall and storms, and a dry season from November to May with generally lower temperatures

but hot, dry winds for about two months before the rains.

The District contains approximately 235,000 people, belonging to the Kinh ethnic group (91%), with Muong (8%) and minorities of Dao, Tay, Hoa, and Khme. Agricultural production and livestock breeding are the main economic activities (81%), with major products being wet rice, cassava, corn, soybean, green beans and some fruits, such as pineapple, mandarin,

and papaya. Other economic activities are forestry (8%), handicraft (6%), small trade (3%), fishing (1%), and transport (1%).

SURVEILLANCE DESIGN: As a basis for sampling, an estimated infant mortality rate (IMR) of 45 per 1,000 live births and an underfive mortality ratio (U5MR) of 60/1,000 were used, aiming to assess IMR after three years of study, and show differences in IMR between equally sized groups in the magnitude of 15 per 1,000. This could be achieved with approximately 20% of the total population, around 50,000 people. A random sampling of villages, with probability proportional to population size in each unit, was performed, and 67 population clusters were selected with a reported population size of 51,024 inhabitants in 11,089 households.

Universe

The entire population in the demographic surveillance area: about 51 000 individuals, 12 000 households

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc	Ha Noi Medical University

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Sida/SAREC
INDEPTH

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Ho Dang Phuc	Institute of Mathematics, VAST	Statistician

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Ho Dang Phuc	HDPhuc	FilaBavi	Documentation of the study
INDEPTH Network	int.indepth	INDEPTH Network	agency
FilaBavi	FilaBavi	Institute of Mathematics	agency
iSHARE2 Technical Team	isTT	INDEPTH Network	Technical Support

Date of Metadata Production

2015-07-27

DDI Document Version

DDI.INDEPTH.VN012.CMD2012.V1

CMD2012.v2

DDI Document ID

DDI.INDEPTH.VN012.CMD2012.V2