Background. This paper describes the first national burden of disease study for South Africa.
The main focus is the burden due to premature mortality, ie years of life lost (YLLs). In …

Preface n 1982, in Oxford, Dr Harold Jaffe, a senior investigator from the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) in Atlanta presented a cluster of cases of homosexual men who were …

Tools for Demographic Estimation is the result of a project, funded by the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) and run under the auspices of the International Union for the …

Objective: To quantify the contribution that AIDS makes to adult mortality in rural South
Africa. Design: Demographic surveillance of the population in a rural area of northern …

Background In India, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased rapidly in
recent decades. Given the association between overweight and obesity with many non …

This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan
Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the …

We investigated birth-interval dynamics in 24 African countries using data from 76
Demographic and Health Surveys conducted since 1986. Controlling for selection bias in …

Inadequate data and apartheid policies have meant that, until recently, most demographers
have not had the opportunity to investigate the level of, and trend in, the fertility of South …

Much of the literature on fertility transition presumes that birth control is practiced either to
limit family size or to space births. This article argues that women also use birth control to …

Differential polygyny in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia is investigated using
individual-level Demographic and Health Surveys data. As well as contrasting polygynists' …