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Mark A. Collinson
Researcher at University of the Witwatersrand
Publications - 101
Citations - 4875
Mark A. Collinson is an academic researcher from University of the Witwatersrand. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Rural area. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 96 publications receiving 4212 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark A. Collinson include DST Systems & Umeå Centre for Global Health Research.
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move
Ibrahim Abubakar,Robert W Aldridge,Delan Devakumar,Miriam Orcutt,Rachel Burns,Mauricio Lima Barreto,Poonam Dhavan,Fouad M. Fouad,Nora Groce,Yan Guo,Sally Hargreaves,Sally Hargreaves,Michael Knipper,J. Jaime Miranda,Nyovani Madise,Bernadette N. Kumar,Davide Mosca,Terry McGovern,Leonard S. Rubenstein,Peter Sammonds,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,Kabir Sheikh,Kabir Sheikh,Stephen Tollman,Paul Spiegel,Cathy Zimmerman,J. Jaime Miranda,Mustafa Abbas,Eleanor Acer,Ayesha Ahmad,Seye Abimbola,Karl Blanchet,Philippe Bocquier,Fiona Samuels,Olga Byrne,Sonia Haerizadeh,Rita Issa,Mark A. Collinson,Carren Ginsburg,Ilan Kelman,Alys McAlpine,Nicola S. Pocock,Barbara Olshansky,Dandara de Oliveira Ramos,Michael J. White,Suzanne Zhou +46 more
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
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Profile: Agincourt Health and Socio-demographic Surveillance System
Kathleen Kahn,Mark A. Collinson,F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Obed Mokoena,Rhian Twine,Paul Mee,Sulaimon Afolabi,Benjamin Clark,Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula,Audrey Khosa,Simon Khoza,Mildred G Shabangu,Bernard Silaule,Jeffrey B Tibane,Ryan G. Wagner,Michel Garenne,Samuel J. Clark,Stephen Tollman +17 more
TL;DR: Efforts to enhance the research platform include using automated measurement techniques to estimate cause of death by verbal autopsy, full ‘reconciliation’ of in- and out-migrations, follow-up of migrants departing the study area, and optimizing public access to HDSS data are priorities.
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Implications of mortality transition for primary health care in rural South Africa: a population-based surveillance study
Stephen Tollman,Stephen Tollman,Kathleen Kahn,Kathleen Kahn,Benn Sartorius,Mark A. Collinson,Samuel J. Clark,Samuel J. Clark,Michel Garenne,Michel Garenne +9 more
TL;DR: The dynamics of the mortality transition by comparing the period 2002–05 with 1992–94 are investigated and integrated chronic care based on scaled-up delivery of antiretroviral therapy needed to address this expanding burden is considered.
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Returning home to die: circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa.
TL;DR: Evidence strongly suggests that increasing numbers of circular labour migrants of prime working age are becoming ill in the urban areas where they work and coming home to be cared for and eventually to die in the rural areas where their families live.
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Research into health, population and social transitions in rural South Africa: data and methods of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System.
Kathleen Kahn,Stephen Tollman,Mark A. Collinson,Samuel J. Clark,Rhian Twine,Benjamin Clark,Mildred G Shabangu,Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé,Obed Mokoena,Michel Garenne +9 more
TL;DR: A major health and demographic transition was documented over a 12-year period with marked changes in population structure, escalating mortality, declining fertility, and high levels of temporary migration increasing particularly amongst women.