Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- Birbhum Health and Demographic Surveillance System
- Participants enrolled
- 51,424
- Lead institute
- Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance (SHDS)
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Anamitra Barik (SHDS)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Longitudinal
- Location
- West Bengal (Birbhum)
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- The study aims to monitor demographic and health transitions over time in a rural, economically underprivileged region of Birbhum district, West Bengal. It further aim to track vital events (births, deaths, migrations, marriages), healthcare utilization, and health outcomes, with the goal of understanding changing patterns and determinants of population health.
- Reference paper 1
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae172
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Exclusion criteria
- Permanent Migration, displacement or Death
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Rural Setting
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2008-ongoing
- Follow‑up
- Once a fortnight
- Keywords
- Surveillance, Non Communicable Disese
Details
Details
- Age group
- 0-96 years
- Gender
- Men & Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- HDSS