Integrated Demographic and Health Survey Data for Population Health Research

项目总结/摘要 NICHD资助的IPUMS人口和健康调查（IPUMS DHS）项目大大简化了 比较健康分析，通过为所有研究人员提供免费，易于使用的数据，使研究民主化 技能和资源水平。IPUMS DHS是气候变化和健康研究的理想工具，因为它 包括对NICHD重要的许多与气候相关的健康结果的数据。然而，迄今为止， 而不是气候变化。在IPUMS DHS参考书目中列出的研究中， 地址CCH，揭示了巨大的未开发的潜力，新的研究，可以释放与 补充资金。该补充利用IPUMS DHS实现CCH研究的全部承诺 其目标如下： ·补充目标1。扩展IPUMS DHS，使卫生协调委员会能够进行疟疾研究。IPUMS DHS包括 标准的DHS调查，但它还没有包括DHS疟疾发病率调查（MIS），其中包括 疟疾是儿童的主要杀手，也是一种极易受天气条件影响的疾病。 为了将CCH研究扩展到疟疾，我们将把DHS MIS数据纳入IPUMS DHS。 ·补充目标2。使用户能够灵活地将气候数据与IPUMS DHS变量联系起来， 增加IPUMS DHS中与气候相关的变量。我们将发布GPS坐标，以便用户可以 将他们自己的地理空间、气候和气象变量与IPUMS DHS微数据联系起来， 总结变量，如最低饮食多样性，对理解因果途径很重要 气候变化和健康之间的关系。 ·补充目标3。创建一个气候变化和健康Launchpad网站，并提供强大的支持 使用IPUMS DHS进行严格和可重复的CCH研究的工具。为了确保IPUMS DHS完全 并适当地利用CCH研究，我们将创建一个网站与访问的教学工具， 包括基础视频、教程、综合指南和模型开源代码， 研究特定修改的说明。 这一补充将大大提高IPUMS DHS的CCH研究的力量，提供了一套强大的 旨在阐明气候变化与健康之间的途径的新变量和强有力的技术支持 为来自地球仪的分析师提供开创性的研究工具。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The NICHD-funded IPUMS Demographic and Health Surveys (IPUMS DHS) project vastly simplifies comparative health analyses, democratizing research by providing free, easy-to-use data for researchers of all skill and resource levels. IPUMS DHS is an ideal tool for climate change and health (CCH) research because it includes data on many climate-related health outcomes important to NICHD. To date, however, it has focused on health rather than climate change. Only eight percent of the research listed in the IPUMS DHS bibliography addresses CCH, revealing the immense untapped potential for new research that can be unleashed with supplemental funding. This supplement leverages IPUMS DHS to achieve the full promise of CCH research with the following aims: ● Supplemental Aim 1. Extend IPUMS DHS to enable CCH research on malaria. IPUMS DHS includes standard DHS surveys, but it does not yet include the DHS Malaria Incidence Surveys (MIS) that include most information on malaria, a major killer of children and a disease highly susceptible to weather conditions. To extend CCH research to malaria, we will incorporate DHS MIS data into IPUMS DHS. ● Supplemental Aim 2. Empower users to flexibly link climate data with IPUMS DHS variables and increase climate-relevant variables in IPUMS DHS. We will disseminate GPS coordinates so users can link their own geospatial, climate, and meteorological variables to IPUMS DHS microdata and create summary variables, such as Minimum Dietary Diversity, important for understanding causal pathways between climate change and health. ● Supplemental Aim 3. Create a Climate Change and Health Launchpad website with robust support tools for rigorous and reproducible CCH research using IPUMS DHS. To ensure IPUMS DHS is fully and appropriately exploited for CCH research, we will create a website with accessible instructional tools, including foundational videos, tutorials, comprehensive guides, and model open-source code with detailed instructions for study-specific modifications. This supplement will greatly enhance the power of IPUMS DHS for CCH research by providing a powerful set of new variables designed to illuminate pathways between climate change and health and robust technical support tools for groundbreaking research by analysts from across the globe.