STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Lilongwe, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Lilongwe

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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who first contacted for help (firsthelp)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 241

End: 241

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Who was first contacted for help?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Village KI	58	34.3%
2	Village health worker	1	0.6%
3	Office	13	7.7%
4	Family member	62	36.7%
5	Neighbour	10	5.9%
6	Traditional healer	0	0%
7	Relative	11	6.5%
8	other (specify)	14	8.3%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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