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| Michel L GarenneSummaryAffiliation: Institut Pasteur Country: France Publications
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Health transitions in sub-Saharan Africa: overview of mortality trends in children under 5 years old (1950-2000)Michel Garenne
Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, 25 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
Bull World Health Organ 84:470-8. 2006..To reconstruct and analyse mortality trends in children younger than 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa between 1950 and 2000...
Testing for fertility stalls in demographic and health surveysMichel L Garenne
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UMI Résiliences, Paris, France
Popul Health Metr 9:59. 2011..They can also be used to refute apparent fertility stalls obtained when comparing two point estimates from two successive surveys...
Incidence and duration of severe wasting in two African populationsMichel Garenne
IRD and Institut Pasteur, Epidemiologie des Maladies Emergentes, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, F 75015, Paris, France
Public Health Nutr 12:1974-82. 2009..The present study aimed to compare two situations of endemic malnutrition among <5-year-old African children and to estimate the incidence, the duration and the case fatality of severe wasting episodes...
Changing cause of death profile in Morocco: the impact of child-survival programmesMichel Garenne
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement and Institut Pasteur, Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, 25 28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
J Health Popul Nutr 25:212-20. 2007..In contrast, the ALRI programme, which started after 1997, could not have any effect yet, and conditions of delivery and care of the newborn improved only marginally over the study period...
Fertility trends and net reproduction in Agincourt, rural South Africa, 1992-2004Michel L Garenne
IRD and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Scand J Public Health Suppl 69:68-76. 2007..Trends are analysed in the context of widely available modern contraceptive methods and increasing HIV/AIDS...
Comment: health transitions and regressions in Southern AfricaMichel L Garenne
, Paris, France
Scand J Public Health Suppl 69:66-7. 2007
Urbanisation and child health in resource poor settings with special reference to under-five mortality in AfricaMichel Garenne
IRD and Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France
Arch Dis Child 95:464-8. 2010..These emerging threats need to be addressed by appropriate policies and programmes...
Premarital fertility and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan AfricaMichel Garenne
IRD ISD and Institut Pasteur, Paris 2, France
Afr J Reprod Health 12:64-74. 2008..The overall relationship is discussed in light of the relationships between age at marriage, permissiveness and lack of protection during intercourse and their impact on premarital fertility and HIV infection among women...
Sex-specific responses to zinc supplementation in Nouna, Burkina FasoMichel Garenne
IRD and Institut Pasteur, Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 44:619-28. 2007..Children received either a 12.5-mg zinc sulfate tablet or a placebo every day for about 6 months. Outcomes were morbidity, nutritional status, and mortality...
Distributions of mortality risk attributable to low nutritional status in Niakhar, SenegalMichel Garenne
IRD and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
J Nutr 136:2893-900. 2006..Our findings question the value of using classic thresholds of mild, moderate, and severe malnutrition (developed by clinicians for practical purposes) for nutritional epidemiology...
Maternal mortality in South Africa in 2001: From demographic census to epidemiological investigationMichel Garenne
French Institute for Research and Development IRD and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Popul Health Metr 6:4. 2008..abstract:..
Fitting the HIV epidemic in Zambia: a two-sex micro-simulation modelPauline M Leclerc
Institut Pasteur, Unité d Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France
PLoS ONE 4:e5439. 2009..The main target of the model was to fit the HIV seroprevalence profiles by age and sex observed at the Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2001...
Hormonal contraception and HIV prevalence in four African countriesPauline M Leclerc
Epidemiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, Paris, France
Contraception 77:371-6. 2008..The HIV seroprevalence among women aged 15-24 years was compared according to their pattern of contraceptive use in four African countries: Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe...
Sex differences in health indicators among children in African DHS surveysMichel Garenne
IRD, Paris, France
J Biosoc Sci 35:601-14. 2003..The contrast between the lack of differences in behavioural indicators and the significant differences in outcome indicators suggests a biological causality. Results are discussed in the light of biological factors...
Good clinical practice in developing countries: applying recommendationsFrancois Bompart
Direction Accès au Médicament, Sanofi Aventis, Paris, France
Therapie 63:83-8, 77-82. 2008....
Sex ratio at birth and family composition in sub-saharan Africa: inter-couple variationsMichel Garenne
Institut Pasteur, Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France
J Biosoc Sci 41:399-407. 2009..50 and 1.30, and a peak around 1.14. The results and their implications are discussed in the light of former findings in France and in the United States of America...
Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance studyStephen M Tollman
MRC Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit Agincourt, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lancet 372:893-901. 2008..We investigated the extent and nature of this health transition and considered the implications for primary health care...
What's new? Investigating risk factors for severe childhood malnutrition in a high HIV prevalence South African settingHaroon Saloojee
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Scand J Public Health Suppl 69:96-106. 2007..To identify risk factors for severe childhood malnutrition in a rural South African district with a high HIV/AIDS prevalence...
Mortality trends in a new South Africa: hard to make a fresh startKathleen Kahn
MRC Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit Agincourt, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Scand J Public Health Suppl 69:26-34. 2007..Changing mortality patterns are discussed within a health-transition framework...
Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance SystemKathleen Kahn
MRC Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit Agincourt, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
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