{"id":4499,"date":"2024-12-18T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/?page_id=4499"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:12:29","slug":"kersa-hdss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/kersa-hdss\/","title":{"rendered":"Kersa HDSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kersa HDSS) is located in Kersa district of eastern Hararege zone of Oromia region, Eastern Ethiopia <strong>26km<\/strong>\u00a0from the main campus. It was established in 2007 to track demographic and health changes in the community and to be a platform for various health related research by the college of Health and Medical Sciences in Haramaya University. It has a vision to become a center of excellence in health science research in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The HDSS does monitoring demographic events such as birth, death, marital status change and migration; and health related conditions such as pregnancy, immunization, and morbidity among children and adults. It also conducts verbal autopsy for the deceased to identify the causes of death in the population. Other areas of interest of the HDSS are environmental health, reproductive health, nutrition, HIV\/AIDS and health-care seeking and use. The center has 96 permanent workers to facilitate and support the research \u00a0undertaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station.png 1100w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-768x279.png 768w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-1024x372.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-947x344.png 947w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-624x227.png 624w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-24x9.png 24w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-36x13.png 36w, https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/kersa-HDSS-Station-48x17.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kersa HDSS) is located in Kersa district of eastern Hararege zone of Oromia region, Eastern Ethiopia 26km\u00a0from the main campus. It was established in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_edd_button_behavior":[],"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4499\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haramaya.edu.et\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}