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    Should mortality data for the elderly be collected routinely in emergencies? The practical challenges of age-disaggregated surveillance systems

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    Authors
    du Cros, P
    Venis, S
    Karunakara, U
    Affiliation
    Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK.
    Issue Date
    2013-11
    
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    Journal
    Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
    Abstract
    Data on the elderly are rarely collected in humanitarian emergencies. During a refugee crisis in South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières developed a prospective mortality surveillance system collecting data for those aged ≥50 years and found that the elderly were dying at five times the rate of those aged 5-49 years. Practical and ethical issues arose. Were reported ages accurate? Since no baseline exists, what does the mortality rate mean? Should programmatic changes be made without evidence that these would reduce the elderly mortality rate? We outline issues to be addressed to enable informed decisions on response to elderly populations in emergency settings.
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    Oxford University Press
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/303532
    DOI
    10.1093/trstmh/trt085
    PubMed ID
    24114674
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1878-3503
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1093/trstmh/trt085
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