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Joseph J. Valadez - Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries: Testing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling - 9780674049956 - V9780674049956
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Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries: Testing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling

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Description for Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries: Testing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Paperback. Provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid, precise programme monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions. Valadez explains how to adapt Lot Quality Assurance Sampling to assess health programme coverage and technical quality of service providers. Editor(s): Valadez, Joseph J. Num Pages: 264 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBC; KJMV5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.

Throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America public health professionals and paraprofessionals work to control serious, frequent and preventable causes of death and sickness among women and children. Despite international agreement about which health programs to implement and huge investments to support them, avoidable deaths remain high. One reason is the inadequate quality with which programs are implemented.

Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid precise program monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions. Joseph Valadez explains how to adapt Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) as used in industrial quality control more than half a century ago, to assess health program coverage and technical quality of service providers. He shows that by examining no more than 19 children from a health facility catchment area a manager can judge whether coverage with child survival interventions has reached a minimal level, and how to observe health workers perform a task 6 times to judge their technical competency.

Joseph Valadez demonstrates that quick assessment is not necessarily dirty, and can provide the information needed to enhance child survival throughout the developing world. In that spirit Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries is a path breaking text book of modern health services research that both practitioners and students will find indispensable and understandable.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674049956
SKU
V9780674049956
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Joseph J. Valadez
Joseph J. Valadez is Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in the Malaria Implementation Resources Team at the World Bank.

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