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- Facts about Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
- A concise summary of implementing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) in maternal and child health surveying in Kenya and Liberia is now available. The fact sheet describes how the rapid, population-based surveying and analysis method was used in the countries.
- Lot Quality Assurance Sampling in Liberia
- MEASURE Evaluation began providing technical assistance in Liberia for a pilot study using the lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) methodology in early 2011. The purpose of the study was to provide information for programmatic decision making on key health indicators at both the national and county levels.
- Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Measures Performance
- What originated in the 1920s as a quality control methodology in the manufacturing sector is proving to be quite useful in the public health context, and increasingly constructive to MEASURE Evaluation’s in-country work.
- Report Conveys Importance of Gender Measures in Health Programming in Africa
- In its Millennium Campaign, the United Nations stresses the importance of gender equity, child health and maternal health to ending worldwide poverty. However, most studies exploring the relationship between gender measures and health outcomes for women and children have neglected sub-Saharan Africa, even though Africa itself accounts for 58 percent of maternal deaths and 51 percent of deaths of children under the age of 5. In a recently released technical report, “Influence of Gender Measures on Maternal and Child Health in Africa,” written by Kavita Singh, Shelah Bloom and Paul Brodish, MEASURE Evaluation sought to fill this research gap.
