Gbessay Saffa
Biographic Data
| ID | 7035618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gbessay Saffa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gbessay |
| FAMILY NAME | Saffa |
| SIGNATURE | ŠAFFA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Health Organization - Pakistan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Socio-demographic factors associated with incomplete vaccination or non-vaccination among children aged 12–23 months in Sierra Leone
Incomplete vaccination or non-vaccination among children was high in Sierra Leone in 2019. In order to increase childhood vaccine uptake, we recommend the development of initiatives geared towards optimizing facility-based service delivery, intensifying health education focusing more on vaccination, enhancing community engagement, addressing barriers to vaccine access, establishing and ensuring proper functioning of immunization defaulter trackin…
Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of empirical data on design effects (DEFF) for mortality rate for highly clustered data such as with Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with a lack of documentation of methodological limitations and operational utility of mortality estimated from cluster-sampled studies when the DEFF is high. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are to report EVD mortality rate and DEFF estimates, and discuss the methodological limit…
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Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of empirical data on design effects (DEFF) for mortality rate for highly clustered data such as with Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with a lack of documentation of methodological limitations and operational utility of mortality estimated from cluster-sampled studies when the DEFF is high. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are to report EVD mortality rate and DEFF estimates, and discuss the methodological limit…
Socio-demographic factors associated with incomplete vaccination or non-vaccination among children aged 12–23 months in Sierra Leone
Incomplete vaccination or non-vaccination among children was high in Sierra Leone in 2019. In order to increase childhood vaccine uptake, we recommend the development of initiatives geared towards optimizing facility-based service delivery, intensifying health education focusing more on vaccination, enhancing community engagement, addressing barriers to vaccine access, establishing and ensuring proper functioning of immunization defaulter trackin…
Sierra leone (2 works) · Biostatistics (1 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 works) · Ebola virus (1 works) · El Niño (1 works) · Environmental health (1 works) · Epidemiology (1 works) · Geography (1 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (1 works) · Health services (1 works)