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Assessment of health programme effects with longitudinal studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Michael G. M. Rowland
Michael G. M. Rowland
Affiliation:
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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When assessing the effects of a programme one must first consider its objectives. When applied to the improvement of health, the word programme implies an intervention which is sustained, complex, dealing with more than a single aspect of one disease and usually going beyond simple provision of fixed curative facilities. How a programme is assessed will vary with the different components and the underlying purpose of the assessment. It is important to ask just what information is needed and whether or not it needs to be collected on a longitudinal basis.

Type
Monitoring interventions and assessment of their effects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , supplement S10: Health Interventions and Mortality Change in Developing Countries , 1989 , pp. 87 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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