Didier Abdel Fernandes

Biographic Data

ID5185116
NAMEDidier Abdel Fernandes
GIVEN NAMESDidier Abdel
FAMILY NAMEFernandes
SIGNATUREFERNANDES D A
AFFILIATIONSBandim Health Project
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Displacements in reported date of birth and differences in age at death in surveys of child mortality

    Open AccessAndreas Møller Jensen, Sanne Marie Thysen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2025

    Child mortality data in low- and middle-income countries are often derived from survey data prone to imprecision due to recall. Such imprecisions can affect the accuracy of date of birth (DOB) and age at death (AAD). Bandim Health Project runs two Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs) collecting prospective information on pregnancies, births, and deaths in Guinea-Bissau. In a survey, HDSS resident women were interviewed on their bir…

  • Gender disparities in death registration during the Covid-19 pandemic in an urban African setting

    Open AccessOrsola Torrisi, Amabelia Rodrigues et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2025References: 22

    BACKGROUND In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the completeness of death registration is lower among women, hampering accurate monitoring of health and mortality, gender equality, and rights. OBJECTIVE We quantify the gender gap in death registration and examine its determinants in Guinea-Bissau, a data-scarce West African context during 2020–2023, a period of potentially high mortality. METHODS We collected survey data from 477 urb…