Zlata Tanović
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zlata Tanović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zlata |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanović |
| SIGNATURE | TANOVIĆ Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam Institute for International Development; VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4187-1032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi
BACKGROUND: A combination of increasing urbanization, behaviour change, and lack of health services in slums put the urban poor specifically at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based CVD prevention intervention on blood pressure (BP) and other CVD risk factors in a slum setting in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective intervention study includes awareness campaigns, household visits for sc…
Refusal Bias in the Estimation of HIV Prevalence
In 2007, UNAIDS corrected estimates of global HIV prevalence downward from 40 million to 33 million based on a methodological shift from sentinel surveillance to population-based surveys. Since then, population-based surveys are considered the gold standard for estimating HIV prevalence. However, prevalence rates based on representative surveys may be biased because of nonresponse. This article investigates one potential source of nonresponse bia…
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Refusal Bias in the Estimation of HIV Prevalence
In 2007, UNAIDS corrected estimates of global HIV prevalence downward from 40 million to 33 million based on a methodological shift from sentinel surveillance to population-based surveys. Since then, population-based surveys are considered the gold standard for estimating HIV prevalence. However, prevalence rates based on representative surveys may be biased because of nonresponse. This article investigates one potential source of nonresponse bia…
Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the slums of Nairobi
BACKGROUND: A combination of increasing urbanization, behaviour change, and lack of health services in slums put the urban poor specifically at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community-based CVD prevention intervention on blood pressure (BP) and other CVD risk factors in a slum setting in Nairobi, Kenya. DESIGN: Prospective intervention study includes awareness campaigns, household visits for sc…
Economics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (1 works) · Community Health and Development (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Economic growth (1 works) · Estimation (1 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (1 works)