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Lao National Health Survey - 2000

 

Lao National Health Survey 2000

Highlights:

The Lao National Health Survey 2000 is the first survey in the history of the health sector of Lao PDR in combination with the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) related to mother and child health at the end of the decade. The main objectives of the survey are to provide  information about : 1) the health status and the morbidity of the population in Lao PDR, and 2) the availability of health services, and other related issues at the community levels that are relevant for priority-setting, policy, programme strategies and activities, and resource allocation.

Contents:

Purpose

To obtain community-based data on the health and nutrition status of the population, the availability of health services and other related issues at the community levels that are relevant for priority-setting, policy, programme strategies and activities, and resource allocation.
 

Target population

 All persons in Lao PDR
 

Survey period

 First round : March – May 2000Second round: June Third round: November
 

Survey design

 Five questionnaires were used: Village questionnaire, Household questionnaire, Questionnaire for individuals, Questionnaire for women in reproductive age, Questionnaire for children under five. The data collection was done in three rounds.
 

Sample design

 The list of villages and households from the 1999 Agriculture Census was used as sampling frame. A two-stage sampling scheme was used. At the first stage a sample of 264 villages was selected by systematic PPES.  In the second stage a systematic sample of 25 households was selected in each sample village. The selection was based on an updated list of households in the villages at the time of the survey.
 

Sample size

Achieved sample: 264 villages, 6 449 households, 38 260 persons, 7 080 women in reproductive age, 6 293 children under five.   Response rates: households 97.7 %, women 98.3 %, children 99.0 %.
 

Survey content

Village questionnaire:

  • Number of dwellings and inhabitants
  • Access to village in rainy season
  • Availability of medical practitioners, village health workers and traditional birth attendants
  • Availability of four essential drugs

Household questionnaire:

  • Household composition
  • Sources of income, sources of food
  • Sources of water
  • Use of latrines
  • Use of iodine salt
  • Materials used for house construction
  • Access to the media

Questionnaire for individuals:

  • Education and child labour
  • Accidents and injuries in the previous 12 months
  • Acute illness in the last two weeks
  • Health problems: malaria, acute respiratory infection and diarrhoea
  • Health seeking behaviour

Questionnaire for women in reproductive age:

  • Tetanus vaccination
  • Health care of the mother and child
  • Knowledge about STD including HIV/AIDS
  • Food habits

Questionnaire for children under five:

  • Birth registration and early learning
  • Vitamin A supplementation
  • Breast-feeding
  • Care of illness
  • Immunization of children 12 - 23 months
     

 

 

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