Transcript PPT

Arman Bidarbakhtnia
Statistician, UNSIAP
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Areas of focus
Health and nutrition of children
Maternal health
Mortality and causes of death
HIV and AIDS
Health risks related to life style
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Health and nutrition of children
Gender issues:
-Survival chance:
Non-biological
factors
-Health care
discrimination
Data needs
(by sex):
Measurement:
-Death
(under 1&5)
-Ever born &
surviving
(by age of mother)
-Vaccination
-Reporting
error/bias
-Rare events
(wide CIs)
-Symptoms
-Age
-Nutritional status
disaggergation
(Nutritional status;
-Health exp
-Nutritional status age 2)
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World
Africa
Asia
Europe
latin America Northen
& Caribbean American
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
F
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
2005 - 2010
2000 - 2005
1995 - 2000
Under 5 mortality rate per 1,000 live birth by sex, 1995 - 2000,
2000 - 2005 and 2005 – 2010 (Source: UN 2010)
180
M
150
120
90
60
30
0
Oceania
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Maternal Health
Gender issues:
Data needs (for at Measurement:
least two points in time): -Misclassification
-Outcome:
mortality
-Maternal death
-Live birth
-Rare events
(wide CIs)
-Access to prenatal
-Concepts (types
-Visits to health
care
of contraceptive)
facilities
-Underreporting
-Access to skilled
-Contraceptive use (abortions)
personnel
-Disaggregation
(age, m.s., edu,
-Who are at more -Attendance by
skilled personnel geo, eco, hh,..)
risk?
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Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), 2005
820
800
600
430
400
400
330
200
130
0
World
Latin America and
the Caribean
Asia
Oceania
Africa
Source: WHO, Maternal Mortality in 2005 (2007)
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Mortality and causes of death
Gender issues:
Data needs (by age Measurement:
and sex):
-Outcome:
Life expectancy
-Resilience
(M vs F)
-Death
-Cause of death
-Main causes of
death (M vs F)
-Cancer:
distribution
-Underreporting
(sex-selective)
-Misreporting &
misclassification
(cause of death)
-Population
distribution
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Source: UN 2010
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HIV and AIDS
Gender issues:
-Risk: F vs M
Data needs (by age Measurement:
and sex):
-Prevalence
-Sensitive topic
-Death
-Knowledge:
M vs F
-HIV testing
-Access to medicine
-Youth: condom
use (M vs F)
- Sex bias in HIV
testing in surveys
- Bias towards
socially desirable
answers
-High risk sexual
behavior
-Knowledge
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Percentage of women among HIV-positive adults by
region, 2001 and 2007
80
60
40
59 59
51 50
54 54
46
37 37
27 27
20
32 32
26 27
28
50
31
30
17
21
18
2001
2007
0
Source: UNAIDS, Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic (2008)
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Health risks related to life style
Gender issues:
Data needs (by age Measurement:
and sex):
-Alcohol
-Cultural/social
habits: Drinking & consumption
smoking, …
-Smokers
-Limited
information on
physical activities
-Obesity
-Obese population -Difficulty in
-Exposure to indoor
identifying risk
-Physical activities for different
pollution (F)
levels of alcohol
-Types of fuels
-Exposure to
consumption
injuries (M)
-Injuries
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Source: UN 2010
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Sources of data

Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)

Censuses
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Household surveys: DHS, MICS, HIES, WHS,
TUS
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