This paper explores the funding trends, topical themes, and notable gaps in global public
research funding across the areas of energy, climate change, transport, and industrial …

Background Most low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have little or no data
integrated into a national surveillance system to identify characteristics or outcomes of …

Sensitive personal data are created in many application domains, and there is now an
increasing demand to share, integrate, and link such data within and across organisations in …

Background Brazil has made great progress in reducing child mortality over the past
decades, and a parcel of this achievement has been credited to the Bolsa Família program …

Background Factors associated with low birth weight at term (TLBW), a proxy for intrauterine
growth restriction (IUGR), are not well-elucidated in socioeconomically vulnerable …

Background Record linkage is the process of identifying and combining records about the
same individual from two or more different datasets. While there are many open source and …

In 2001, the Brazilian government created the unified registry for social programmes
'Cadastro Unico'. The registry was greatly expanded and, by 2003, it became the main …

Linked administrative data offer a rich source of information that can be harnessed to
describe patterns of disease, understand their causes and evaluate interventions. However …

Background Universal health coverage is one of the WHO End TB Strategy priority
interventions and could be achieved—particularly in low-income and middle-income …

Abstract The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) was created in
2016 in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil with the objective of integrating data and knowledge aiming …