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标题：Neglected Value of Small Population-based Surveys: A Comparison with Demographic and Health Survey Data
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作者：Anne C. Langston ; Debra M. Prosnitz ; Eric G. Sarriot 等
期刊名称：The Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
印刷版ISSN：1606-0997
电子版ISSN：2072-1315
出版年度：2015
卷号：33
期号：1
页码：123-136
语种：English
出版社：International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
摘要：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. Key words: Child health, Methodology, Mortality, Survey
关键词：Child health; Methodology; Mortality; Survey