Finding the gap: Revealing local disparities in coverage of maternal, newborn and child health services in South Sudan using lot quality assurance sampling

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1711-1721

  Valadez, Joseph J ^a   Berendes, Sima ^a   Lako, Richard ^b   Gould, Simon ^a   Vargas, William ^a   Milner, Susan ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Government of the Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Health   (SSD)

Author keywords

Africa; Equity; Household survey; Lot quality assurance sampling; Millennium development goals; Monitoring and evaluation; South Sudan; Universal health coverage

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; DECISION MAKING; EQUITY; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; IMMUNIZATION; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; NEONATE; SAMPLING; VALUATION;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PRENATAL CARE; SUDAN; ADULT; CHILD HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH SUDAN; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

CENTRAL EQUATORIA; JONGLEI; SOUTH SUDAN;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOT QUALITY ASSURANCE SAMPLING; MATERNAL HEALTH; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955172667     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12613     Document Type: Article

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