PMID- 16764978
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20061208
LR  - 20220318
IS  - 0277-9536 (Print)
IS  - 0277-9536 (Linking)
VI  - 63
IP  - 6
DP  - 2006 Sep
TI  - Global review of health care surveys using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS), 
      1984-2004.
PG  - 1648-60
AB  - We conducted a global review on the use of lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) 
      to assess health care services, health behaviors, and disease burden. 
      Publications and reports on LQAS surveys were sought from Medline and five other 
      electronic databases; the World Health Organization; the World Bank; governments, 
      nongovernmental organizations, and individual scientists. We identified a total 
      of 805 LQAS surveys conducted by different management groups during January 1984 
      through December 2004. There was a striking increase in the annual number of LQAS 
      surveys conducted in 2000-2004 (128/year) compared with 1984-1999 (10/year). 
      Surveys were conducted in 55 countries, and in 12 of these countries there were 
      10 or more LQAS surveys. Geographically, 317 surveys (39.4%) were conducted in 
      Africa, 197 (28.5%) in the Americas, 115 (14.3%) in the Eastern Mediterranean, 
      114 (14.2%) in South-East Asia, 48 (6.0%) in Europe, and 14 (1.8%) in the Western 
      Pacific. Health care parameters varied, and some surveys assessed more than one 
      parameter. There were 320 surveys about risk factors for HIV/AIDS/sexually 
      transmitted infections; 266 surveys on immunization coverage, 240 surveys 
      post-disasters, 224 surveys on women's health, 142 surveys on growth and 
      nutrition, 136 surveys on diarrheal disease control, and 88 surveys on quality 
      management. LQAS surveys to assess disease burden included 23 neonatal tetanus 
      mortality surveys and 12 surveys on other diseases. LQAS is a practical field 
      method which increasingly is being applied in assessment of preventive and 
      curative health services, and may offer new research opportunities to social 
      scientists. When LQAS data are collected recurrently at multiple time points, 
      they can be used to measure the spatial variation in behavior change. Such data 
      provide insight into understanding relationships between various investments in 
      social, human, and physical capital, and into the effectiveness of different 
      public health strategies in achieving particular behavioral outcomes.
FAU - Robertson, Susan E
AU  - Robertson SE
AD  - Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization, 
      1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
FAU - Valadez, Joseph J
AU  - Valadez JJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20060609
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Sci Med
JT  - Social science & medicine (1982)
JID - 8303205
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - Diarrhea/prevention & control
MH  - Disasters
MH  - Female
MH  - Growth
MH  - Health Care Surveys/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Immunization
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/methods
MH  - Sampling Studies
MH  - Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & control
MH  - Tetanus/mortality
MH  - Total Quality Management
MH  - Women's Health
RF  - 72
EDAT- 2006/06/13 09:00
MHDA- 2006/12/12 09:00
CRDT- 2006/06/13 09:00
PHST- 2005/10/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/06/13 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/12/12 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/06/13 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0277-9536(06)00210-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.011 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Sci Med. 2006 Sep;63(6):1648-60. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.04.011. Epub 
      2006 Jun 9.