Cheikh Sokhna
Biographic Data
| ID | 1740516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheikh Sokhna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheikh |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokhna |
| SIGNATURE | SOKHNA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4810-8232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A qualitative study of healthcare workers’ living and working conditions in rural and urban areas of Senegal in the context of Universal Health Coverage
BACKGROUND: Healthcare delivery in Senegal is hindered by a limited, unequally distributed healthcare workforce, and by inadequate infrastructure which negatively impacts access to quality care and good health outcomes. Despite efforts to improve healthcare delivery through Universal Health Coverage (UHC), progress remains insufficient. We investigated the living and working conditions of Senegalese healthcare workers (HWs), specifically their re…
Attitudes to malaria vaccination in children
INTRODUCTION: Several sub-Saharan African countries are launching malaria vaccination programmes for children. We assessed how attitudes to malaria vaccination for children could be better understood by considering the individual dynamics of COVID-19 vaccine intention/uptake over the 2021-2023 campaigns, with a view to highlighting barriers likely to affect malaria vaccine uptake. METHODS: We conducted a six-wave telephone-based survey of 600 ran…
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention timing on clinical malaria incidence dynamics in the Kedougou region, Senegal
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine is recommended by the World Health Organization since 2012 for clinical malaria prevention in children in the Sahelian region of Africa. In Senegal, SMC implementation began in 2013 and is given to children under 10 years old. This study aimed to describe clinical malaria incidence in the general population during routine SMC implementation and to analyse how SM…
Hepatitis B prevention and treatment needs in women in Senegal (ANRS 12356 AmBass survey)
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03215732
Vaccination against tuberculosis, polio and hepatitis B at birth in Podor health district, Northern Senegal
Timely administration of birth doses is a challenge in the Podor health district. The solutions would be improving geographic access to health facilities, involving community health workers, raising awareness and integrating health services
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Application of Functional Data Analysis to Identify Patterns of Malaria Incidence, to Guide Targeted Control Strategies
We introduce an approach based on functional data analysis to identify patterns of malaria incidence to guide effective targeting of malaria control in a seasonal transmission area. Using functional data method, a smooth function (functional data or curve) was fitted from the time series of observed malaria incidence for each of 575 villages in west-central Senegal from 2008 to 2012. These 575 smooth functions were classified using hierarchical c…
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
Niakhar, mémoires et perspectives
Fondé en 1962 en zone rurale à 150 km de Dakar, en pays Sereer, l'observatoire de Niakhar est le plus ancien observatoire de population en Afrique encore en activité. Au cœur d'une histoire scientifique et humaine originale, il a permis d'assurer, depuis sa création, le suivi sanitaire, démographique, social, économique et environnemental de plus de deux générations. Les résultats de recherche de Niakhar, avec des indicateurs suivis dans le temps…
Estimating mortality from external causes using data from retrospective surveys
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data on causes of death is often inaccurate or incomplete. In this paper, we test whether adding a few questions about injuries and accidents to mortality questionnaires used in representative household surveys
Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By re…
HIV/Aids-related mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an opportunity to assess the mortality burden of the pandemic from individual data. OBJECTIVE: To present standardised comparisons of HIV/AIDS-related m…
Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance sites, such as those operated within the INDEPTH Network, have the potential to contribute to bridging the information gaps. OBJECTIVE: To describe pat…
Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be achieved by substantial reductions in risk factors and improvements in the management of chronic conditions. A high burden of NCD mortality among muc…
Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population surveillance in Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites across Africa and Asia, in which individual deaths are followed up with verbal autopsies…
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Cause-specific childhood mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Childhood mortality, particularly in the first 5 years of life, is a major global concern and the target of Millennium Development Goal 4. Although the majority of childhood deaths occur in Africa and Asia, these are also the regions where such deaths are least likely to be registered. The INDEPTH Network works to alleviate this problem by collating detailed individual data from defined Health and Demographic Surveillance sites. By re…
HIV/Aids-related mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: As the HIV/AIDS pandemic has evolved over recent decades, Africa has been the most affected region, even though a large proportion of HIV/AIDS deaths have not been documented at the individual level. Systematic application of verbal autopsy (VA) methods in defined populations provides an opportunity to assess the mortality burden of the pandemic from individual data. OBJECTIVE: To present standardised comparisons of HIV/AIDS-related m…
Pregnancy-related mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Women continue to die in unacceptably large numbers around the world as a result of pregnancy, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate, population-based information characterising the issues and informing solutions. Population surveillance sites, such as those operated within the INDEPTH Network, have the potential to contribute to bridging the information gaps. OBJECTIVE: To describe pat…
Adult non-communicable disease mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a major global issue, as other categories of mortality have diminished and life expectancy has increased. The World Health Organization's Member States have called for a 25% reduction in premature NCD mortality by 2025, which can only be achieved by substantial reductions in risk factors and improvements in the management of chronic conditions. A high burden of NCD mortality among muc…
Malaria mortality in Africa and Asia
BACKGROUND: Malaria continues to be a major cause of infectious disease mortality in tropical regions. However, deaths from malaria are most often not individually documented, and as a result overall understanding of malaria epidemiology is inadequate. INDEPTH Network members maintain population surveillance in Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites across Africa and Asia, in which individual deaths are followed up with verbal autopsies…
Niakhar, mémoires et perspectives
Fondé en 1962 en zone rurale à 150 km de Dakar, en pays Sereer, l'observatoire de Niakhar est le plus ancien observatoire de population en Afrique encore en activité. Au cœur d'une histoire scientifique et humaine originale, il a permis d'assurer, depuis sa création, le suivi sanitaire, démographique, social, économique et environnemental de plus de deux générations. Les résultats de recherche de Niakhar, avec des indicateurs suivis dans le temps…
Estimating mortality from external causes using data from retrospective surveys
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), data on causes of death is often inaccurate or incomplete. In this paper, we test whether adding a few questions about injuries and accidents to mortality questionnaires used in representative household surveys
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
Application of Functional Data Analysis to Identify Patterns of Malaria Incidence, to Guide Targeted Control Strategies
We introduce an approach based on functional data analysis to identify patterns of malaria incidence to guide effective targeting of malaria control in a seasonal transmission area. Using functional data method, a smooth function (functional data or curve) was fitted from the time series of observed malaria incidence for each of 575 villages in west-central Senegal from 2008 to 2012. These 575 smooth functions were classified using hierarchical c…
Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality
Sibling survival histories are a major source of adult mortality estimates in countries with incomplete death registration. We evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Participants were randomly assigned to either the Demographic and Health Survey questionnaire or a questionnaire incorporating an event history calendar, reca…
Vaccination against tuberculosis, polio and hepatitis B at birth in Podor health district, Northern Senegal
Timely administration of birth doses is a challenge in the Podor health district. The solutions would be improving geographic access to health facilities, involving community health workers, raising awareness and integrating health services
Hepatitis B prevention and treatment needs in women in Senegal (ANRS 12356 AmBass survey)
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03215732
Attitudes to malaria vaccination in children
INTRODUCTION: Several sub-Saharan African countries are launching malaria vaccination programmes for children. We assessed how attitudes to malaria vaccination for children could be better understood by considering the individual dynamics of COVID-19 vaccine intention/uptake over the 2021-2023 campaigns, with a view to highlighting barriers likely to affect malaria vaccine uptake. METHODS: We conducted a six-wave telephone-based survey of 600 ran…
Impact of seasonal malaria chemoprevention timing on clinical malaria incidence dynamics in the Kedougou region, Senegal
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine is recommended by the World Health Organization since 2012 for clinical malaria prevention in children in the Sahelian region of Africa. In Senegal, SMC implementation began in 2013 and is given to children under 10 years old. This study aimed to describe clinical malaria incidence in the general population during routine SMC implementation and to analyse how SM…
A qualitative study of healthcare workers’ living and working conditions in rural and urban areas of Senegal in the context of Universal Health Coverage
BACKGROUND: Healthcare delivery in Senegal is hindered by a limited, unequally distributed healthcare workforce, and by inadequate infrastructure which negatively impacts access to quality care and good health outcomes. Despite efforts to improve healthcare delivery through Universal Health Coverage (UHC), progress remains insufficient. We investigated the living and working conditions of Senegalese healthcare workers (HWs), specifically their re…
Environmental health (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Population (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 works) · Immunology (5 works) · Cause of death (4 works) · Disease (4 works) · Malaria (4 works)