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Creating a Minimum Data Set on ageing in sub-Saharan Africa
Author(s)	Paul R Kowal, Lara J Wolfson, John E Dowd
Journal title	Southern African Journal of Gerontology, vol 9, no 2, October 2000
Pages	pp 18-23
Keywords	Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Methodology ; Ghana ; South Africa ; Tanzania ; Zimbabwe.
Annotation	The World Health Organization (WHO), together with representatives of four sub-Saharan African countries (Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) and other stakeholders, launched a project in 1999 to establish a Minimum Data Set (MDS) on ageing and older people in Africa. The project focuses on identifying what data are needed to build knowledge on the situation of older Africans, and forging the centralised, in-country collation and dissemination of this information. This paper summarises the current state of the project. It touches on issues of data availability and quality, while exploring methods for data collection, integration, collation and dissemination. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001027205 A
Classmark	BG: CC: 4C: 3D: 7MS: 7PM: 7LK: 7NR
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