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Methods for Health Surveys in Difficult Settings

Edited by Oleg Bilukha (Centers for Disease Control), Kristof Bostoen (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Francesco Checchi (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Bridget Fenn (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Oliver ...
Analytic perspective    
Old and new cluster designs in emergency field surveys: in search of a one-fits-all solution
Oleg O Bilukha
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:7 (8 July 2008)
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Editorial    
Methods for health surveys in difficult settings: charting progress, moving forward
Kristof Bostoen, Oleg O Bilukha, Bridget Fenn, Oliver W Morgan, Clarence C Tam, Annemarie ter Veen, Francesco Checchi
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:13 (1 June 2007)
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Commentary    
Who should be undertaking population-based surveys in humanitarian emergencies?
Paul B Spiegel
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:12 (1 June 2007)
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Commentary    
Mortality and nutrition surveys by Non-Governmental organisations. Perspectives from the CE-DAT database
Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:11 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
A review of methodology and analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys conducted in humanitarian emergencies from October 1993 to April 2004
Claudine Prudhon, Paul B Spiegel
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:10 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Wanted: studies on mortality estimation methods for humanitarian emergencies, suggestions for future research
Working Group for Mortality Estimation in Emergencies
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:9 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Don't spin the pen: two alternative methods for second-stage sampling in urban cluster surveys
Rebecca F Grais, Angela MC Rose, Jean-Paul Guthmann
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:8 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Optimisation of the T-square sampling method to estimate population sizes
Kristof Bostoen, Zaid Chalabi, Rebecca F Grais
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:7 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
Sampling in health geography: reconciling geographical objectives and probabilistic methods. An example of a health survey in Vientiane (Lao PDR)
Julie Vallée, Marc Souris, Florence Fournet, Audrey Bochaton, Virginie Mobillion, Karine Peyronnie, Gérard Salem
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:6 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania
Kizito Shirima, Oscar Mukasa, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Fatuma Manzi, Davis John, Adiel Mushi, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Marcel Tanner, Hassan Mshinda, David Schellenberg
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:5 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
Assessing household wealth in health studies in developing countries: a comparison of participatory wealth ranking and survey techniques from rural South Africa
James R Hargreaves, Linda A Morison, John SS Gear, Julia C Kim, Mzamani B Makhubele, John DH Porter, Charlotte Watts, Paul M Pronyk
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:4 (1 June 2007)
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