James Phillips
Bruce MacLeod
Brian Pence

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol2/6/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2000.2.6

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Abstract
Although longitudinal experimental community health research is crucial to testing hypotheses about the demographic impact of health technologies, longitudinal demographic research field stations are rare, owing to the complexity and high cost of developing requisite computer software systems. This paper describes the Household Registration System (HRS), a software package that has been used for the rapid development of eleven surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Features of the HRS automate software generation for a family of surveillance applications, obviating the need for new and complex computer software systems for each new longitudinal demographic study.

Author's affiliation
James Phillips
Columbia University, United States of America
Bruce MacLeod
University of Southern Maine (Portland), United States of America
Brian Pence
Population Council, United States of America

Keywords
automated software generation, demographic surveillance, experimental trial, longitudinal community health research, longitudinal survival studies

Word count (Main text)
7671

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