Osman A. Sankoh

SFB 544 – Control of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Uni-Heidelberg Discussion Paper 03/2002 Sankoh et al. Bayesian and GIS Mapping of Childhood Mortality in Rural Burkina Faso (2008)

Osman A. Sankoh, Olaf Berke, Séraphin Simboro, Heiko Becher

Background: Various geographic information systems (GIS) are now widely used to map the distribution of diseases and mortality. However, the mapping of raw mortality rates has been found to be...

SFB 544 – Control of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Uni-Heidelberg Discussion Paper 04/2002 Sankoh and Becher Summary Disease Cluster Methods in Epidemiology and Application to Data on Childhood Mortality in Rural Burkina Faso (2008)

Osman A. Sankoh, Heiko Becher

There are over hundred disease cluster tests in the peer-reviewed literature. Several questions must therefore first be answered before choosing a test or a specific method. The main question is:...

A new method for the evaluation of forestry data / (2001)

Sankoh, Osman A.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Dortmund, 2000.

Clustering of childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso (2001)

Sankoh, Osman A, Yé, Yazoumé, Sauerborn, Rainer, Müller, Olaf, Becher, Heiko

Background Childhood mortality is a major public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. For the implementation of efficient public health systems, knowledge of the spatial distribution of mortality is...