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Measuring Social Exclusion in Routine Public Health Surveys: Construction of a Multidimensional Instrument

Measuring Social Exclusion in Routine Public Health Surveys: Construction of a Multidimensional Instrument

... Our approach to construct a scale for social exclusion based on items from routine public health surveys was successful in all four cities as far as relevant items were available in the surveys. Data ...

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Drivers of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia: regional analyses using the demographic and health surveys

Drivers of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia: regional analyses using the demographic and health surveys

... and Health Surveys (DHS) collected in the last 10 years (since 2003) to look at the current status of facility deliveries and related out- comes (Table ...

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Measuring infertility in populations: constructing a standard definition for use with demographic and reproductive health surveys

Measuring infertility in populations: constructing a standard definition for use with demographic and reproductive health surveys

... Methods: We proposed a standard definition of infertility and used it to generate prevalence estimates using 53 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). The analysis was restricted to the subset of DHS that ...

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Sibling-Linked Data in the Demographic and Health Surveys

Sibling-Linked Data in the Demographic and Health Surveys

... Family Health Survey (NFHS) and its sister Demographic and Health Surveys ...DHS surveys conducted in some 75 developing and transition economies (see ...

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Testing for fertility stalls in demographic and health surveys

Testing for fertility stalls in demographic and health surveys

... This study compares two methods for testing fertility trends and fertility stalls using Demographic and Health Surveys data. The first method is based on linear regression and uses the equivalence of period ...

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Domestic violence measurement in the demographic and health surveys: The history and the challenges

Domestic violence measurement in the demographic and health surveys: The history and the challenges

... and health outcomes, and the lack of representative information about the phenomenon, that the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program collects data on the prevalence of domestic and other forms ...

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Inequalities in health and health risk factors in the Southern African Development Community: evidence from World Health Surveys

Inequalities in health and health risk factors in the Southern African Development Community: evidence from World Health Surveys

... of health risk behaviours are more prone to either under- reporting or over-reporting in health surveys because of social desirability ...in health and risk factors ...poor health) ...

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Variations in Children’s Dental Service Use Based on Four National Health Surveys

Variations in Children’s Dental Service Use Based on Four National Health Surveys

... oral health data, the in-person examination data from NHANES should be ...4 surveys with detailed expenditure ...other surveys, racial/ ethnic differences in dental use or need may be limited to ...

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Disaggregating catastrophic health expenditure by disease area: cross-country estimates based on the World Health Surveys

Disaggregating catastrophic health expenditure by disease area: cross-country estimates based on the World Health Surveys

... of health system performance: GDP per capita, GHES per capita, or the share of total health expenditure that is pooled— the slope of the relationship is unchanged when includ- ing these ...

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Bayesian Modeling for Mental Health Surveys

Bayesian Modeling for Mental Health Surveys

... Mental health research in this population has suggested that reserve forces have greater risk of long-term psychopathology associ- ated with ...mental health consequences of war in army reserve guards ...

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Strategies for maximizing consent rates for child dental health surveys: a randomised controlled trial

Strategies for maximizing consent rates for child dental health surveys: a randomised controlled trial

... dental surveys are now required to obtain ‘active’ consent, that is parents of all children who are not com- petent are required to provide written, informed consent prior to ...the surveys and an increased ...

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Parental compliance - an emerging problem in Liverpool community child health surveys 1991-2006

Parental compliance - an emerging problem in Liverpool community child health surveys 1991-2006

... The pattern of parental non-responses to specific questions varied across the four surveys indicating some influence of survey year on response characteristics. Non-responses to some core questions were higher in ...

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A Comparison of Different Methods of Zero-Inflated Data Analysis and an Application in Health Surveys

A Comparison of Different Methods of Zero-Inflated Data Analysis and an Application in Health Surveys

... Third, the cross-sectional nature of the data was another limitation of the study. Since these data were cross-sectional, no temporal order can be determined, so it is possible that those with higher ...

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Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys

Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys

... idation, we applied the coefficients of regressions estimated using the 2003- 2006 rounds to the same varia- bles in pooled data from two previous rounds of NHANES (1999-2000 and 2001-2002). The observed-predicted dif- ...

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Birth weight data in 15 demographic and health surveys

Birth weight data in 15 demographic and health surveys

... Figure 7.15: Probability of classification into size categories by difference between actual birth weight and mean birth weight in the cluster in Malawi for infants with a reported birth[r] ...

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Sample selection, recruitment and participation rates in health examination surveys in Europe – experience from seven national surveys

Sample selection, recruitment and participation rates in health examination surveys in Europe – experience from seven national surveys

... individual-based surveys. In Finland, population-based health surveys have been conducted at five-year intervals since 1972, initially in Eastern Finland ...the surveys were part of the multi- ...

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The Danish health and morbidity surveys: study design and participant characteristics

The Danish health and morbidity surveys: study design and participant characteristics

... e.g. health authorities, and private companies such as banks and insurance companies to contact a specific citi- zen and deliver a message to the person ...web surveys is essential in order to make the ...

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Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys

Growing inequities in maternal health in South Africa: a comparison of serial national household surveys

... Fifteen households within each selected EA consti- tuted the secondary sampling units (15,000 house- holds). The same EAs were used in both surveys, but different households were selected. The final sampling unit ...

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Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys

Socioeconomic-related health inequality in South Africa: evidence from General Household Surveys

... understand however if there are any changes in the pat- terns observed in 2008 from earlier periods, we present in Figures 1 and 2 the standardized illness and disability concentration indices based on data from 2002, ...

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Assessing human resources for health: what can be learned from labour force surveys?

Assessing human resources for health: what can be learned from labour force surveys?

... skilled health workers has become a cause for global concern, as mass emigration of health profes- sionals from less-developed countries can put great pres- sure on the health systems and workers ...

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