The Niakhar Social Networks and Health Project

Valérie Delaunay (1) , Laetitia Douillot (2) , Steven Rytina (3) , Yacine Boujija (2) , Simona Bignami (2) , Sadio Ba Gning (4) , Cheikh Sokhna (5) , Loubna Belaid (3) , Babak Fotouhi (6) , Abdourahmane Senghor (7) , John Sandberg (8)

1 LPED - Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement
2 UdeM - Université de Montréal
3 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
4 UGB - Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis Sénégal
5 VITROME - Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes
6 Harvard University [Cambridge]
7 Sénégal
8 GWU - Georges Washington University

This paper presents details of the design and implementation of the Niakhar Social Networks and Health Project (NSNHP), a large, mixed-methods project funded by the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). By redressing fundamental problems in conventional survey network data collection methods, the project is aimed at improving inferences concerning the association between social network structures and processes and health behaviors and outcomes. Fielded in collaboration with an ongoing demographic and health surveillance system in rural Senegal, the NSNHP includes qualitative data concerning the dimensions of social association and health ideologies and behaviors in the study zone, two panels of a new social network survey, and several supplementary and affiliated data sets

Keywords: Social networks; Demography; Public health; Survey methodology

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Demography; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology

Valérie Delaunay, Laetitia Douillot, Steven Rytina, Yacine Boujija, Simona Bignami, et al.. The Niakhar Social Networks and Health Project. MethodsX, 2019, 6, pp.1360-1369. ⟨10.1016/j.mex.2019.05.037⟩. ⟨hal-02289832⟩