Summary Background In southern Africa, a substantial health transition is underway, with
the heavy burden of chronic infectious illness (HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis) paralleled by the …

Aims: This paper examines trends in age-specific mortality in a rural South African
population from 1992 to 2003, a decade spanning major sociopolitical change and …

Background Virtually all low-and middle-income countries are undergoing an
epidemiological transition whose progression is more varied than experienced in high …

Background Understanding the effects of socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes is
important to implement specific preventive actions. We assessed socioeconomic disparities …

Background The poor health of South Africans is known to be associated with a quadruple
disease burden. In the second National Burden of Disease (NBD) study, we aimed to …

Background. Cause-of-death statistics are an essential component of health information.
Despite improvements, underregistration and misclassification of causes make it difficult to …

Summary 15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound
health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non …

For several decades, researchers from the South African Medical Research Council have
made invaluable contributions towards improving the health of the population through the …

VIEWPOINT studies are often used to obtain information about population dynamics, for
example, infant mortality in Africa. However, investigations of adult health are more difficult …

Objective: To examine changes in mortality in rural South Africa over the period 1992-1995
by age, sex and cause of death. Design: As with much of sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa …