Tropical Data: Approach and Methodology as Applied to Trachoma Prevalence Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Population-based prevalence surveys are essential for decision-making on interventions to achieve trachoma elimination as a public health problem. This paper outlines the methodologies of Tropical Data, which supports work to undertake those surveys.

Methods

Tropical Data is a consortium of partners that supports health ministries worldwide to conduct globally standardised prevalence surveys that conform to World Health Organization recommendations. Founding principles are health ministry ownership, partnership and collaboration, and quality assurance and quality control at every step of the survey process. Support covers survey planning, survey design, training, electronic data collection and fieldwork, and data management, analysis and dissemination. Methods are ad

SUBMITTER: Harding-Esch EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751062 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature