Em Janeiro de 2017, Moçambique lançou o Sistema de Vigilância de Eventos Vitais e Causas de Morte (COMSA) para estabelecer um sistema nacional de amostragem para registo de eventos vitais para monitorar a ocorrência de mortalidade e causas de morte a nível nacional e subnacional, incluindo o uso de ...
Background: To tackle the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and reduce premature cardiovascular (CV) mortality by a third by the year 2030, countries must achieve 80% availability of affordable essential medicines (EMs) and technologies in all health facilities.
Objectives: To evalua...
Este relatório apresenta os resultados de 2020 do Sistema de Vigilância de Eventos Vitais e
Causas de Morte (COMSA) em implementação em Moçambique para monitorar a mortali
dade e as causas de morte a nível nacional e provincial, incluindo o uso de autópsia verbal e
social para apurar a causa de ...
Fernandes, quinhas;
orvalho, augusto;
Machai, helena;
Pfeiffer, james;
Carone, marco;
Pinto, norton;
Carimo, naziat;
Ramiro, isaías;
Gloyd, stephen;
Sherr, kenneth.
Introduction: Overall, resilient health systems build upon sufficient, qualified, well-distributed, and motivated health workers; however, this precious resource is limited in numbers to meet people's demands, particularly in LMICs. Understanding the subnational distribution of health workers from differ...
background. Malaria prevention in Africa merits particular
attention as the world strives toward a better life for the poorest.
The insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are one of the malaria control strategies that, due to their cost effectiveness, are largely used
in the country. Data on the actual cove...
Rodríguez, Daniela C;
Macicame, Ivalda;
Adriano, Antonio;
Chicumbe, Sergio;
Duce, Pedro;
Kante, Almamy;
Mavie, Victor A;
Mbalane, Etelvina;
Nhachungue, Sheila;
Titus, Nordino;
Dyk, Fred Van;
Amouzou, Agbessi.
Donor transitions, where externally funded programs transfer to country ownership and management, are increasingly common. The Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action - Mozambique (COMSA) project established a nationwide surveillance system capturing vital events at the community level with funding...
In sub-Saharan Africa, recent data about causes of adult death and care-seeking during illnesses are limited. This analysis examines adult deaths using verbal and social autopsy data from a nationally and provincially representative sample registration system in Mozambique. Causes of death among those 18...
Mortality data, especially concerning deaths by cause, are critical for understanding the burden of disease, planning and monitoring of interventions aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality, as well as monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals for health (goal 3). In sub-Saharan Africa and most limi...
Macicame, Ivalda;
Kante, Almamy M;
Wilson, Emily;
Gilbert, Brian;
Koffi, Alain;
Nhachungue, Sheila;
Monjane, Celso;
Duce, Pedro;
Adriano, Antonio;
Chicumbe, Sergio;
Kalter, Henry D;
Datta, Abhirup;
Zeger, Scott;
Black, Robert E;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Amouzou, Agbessi.
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks timely, reliable, and accurate national data on mortality and causes of death (CODs). In 2018 Mozambique launched a sample registration system (Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action [COMSA]-Mozambique), which collects continuous birth, death, and COD data from 700 randoml...
Gilbert, Brian;
Fiksel, Jacob;
Wilson, Emily;
Kalter, Henry;
Kante, Almamy;
Akum, Aveika;
Blau, Dianna;
Bassat, Quique;
Macicame, Ivalda;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Black, Robert;
Zeger, Scott;
Amouzou, Agbessi;
Datta, Abhirup.
The Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action platform is collecting verbal autopsy (VA) records from a nationally representative sample in Mozambique. These records are used to estimate the national and subnational cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) for children (1-59 months) and neonates (1...
