ArticleJournal of health, population, and nutrition2015
Neglected value of small population-based surveys: a comparison with demographic and health survey data.
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- Estimation of Ethiopia's immunization coverage - 20 years of discrepancies.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Using DHS and MICS data to complement or replace NGO baseline health data: an exploratory study.F1000Research · 2021Article
- Utilization of the national cluster of district health information system for health service decision-making at the district, sub-district and community levels in selected districts of the Brong Ahafo region in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut.American journal of public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
We believe that global health practice and evaluation operate with misleading assumptions about lack of reliability of small population-based health surveys (district level and below), leading managers and decision-makers to under-use this valuable information and programmatic tool and to rely on health information from large national surveys when neither timing nor available data meet their needs. This paper uses a unique opportunity for comparison between a knowledge, practice, and coverage (KPC) household survey and Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) carried out in overlapping timeframes to disprove these enduring suspicions. Our analysis shows that the KPC provides coverage estimates consistent with the RDHS estimates for the same geographic areas. We discuss cases of divergence between estimates. Application of the Lives Saved Tool to the KPC results also yields child mortality estimates comparable with DHS-measured mortality. We draw three main lessons from the study and conclude with recommendations for challenging unfounded assumptions against the value of small household coverage surveys, which can be a key resource in the arsenal of local health programmers.
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