Prospective Community Studies in Developing Countries

Introduction 1. Origins of Longitudinal Community Based Studies Carl E. Taylor 2. The History, Methodology, and Main Findings of the Matlab Project in Bangladesh W. Henry Mosley 3. Determinants of Rates of Early Childhood Sickness and Death and of Long Birth Intervals: Evidence from the Khanna Study, Rural Punjab, India, 1954-1964 John B. Wyon 4. Methodology and Main Findings on Child Survival of the Khanna Restudy, 1984-1988 Monica Das Gupta 5. Lessons from Narangwal About Primary Health Care, Family Planning, and Nutrition Carl E. Taylor and Cecile De Sweemer 6. A Comparison of Supplementary Feeding and Medical Care of Pre-School Children in Guatemela Nevin S. Scrimshaw and Miguel Guzman 7. Longitudinal Community Health Research for Equity and Accountability in Primary Health Care in Haiti Gretchen Berggren, Warren Berggren, Henri Ménager, and Eddy Genece 8. Design, Results, and Comments on the Machakos Project in Kenya Jeroen K. van Ginneken, A.S. Muller, and Omondi-Odhiambo 9. The Phlolela Health Centre Understanding Helath and Disease in South Africa Trough Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Stephen M. Tollman, Sidney L. Kark, and Emily Kark 10. Three decades of Research on Population and Health: The ORSTROM Experience in Rural Senegal, 1962-1991 Michel Garenne and Pierre Cantrelle 11. Bandafassi: a 23-Year Prospective Community Study in Rural Senegal (1970-1993) Gilles Pison, Annabel Desgrées du Lou, and André Langanay 12. Bandim, an Unplanned Longitudinal Study Peter Aaby Appendix