Ghana is a yellow fever–endemic country and experienced a vaccine-derived polio outbreak
in July 2019. A reactive polio vaccination campaign was conducted in September 2019 and …

Background Routine health information systems (RHIS) are crucial to the acquisition of data
for health sector planning. In developing countries, the insufficient quality of the data …

Health information systems in developing countries are often faulted for the poor quality of
the data generated and for the insufficient means implemented to improve system …

Background Assessing the quality of medicines in low-middle income countries (LMICs)
relies primarily on human inspection and screening technologies, where available. Field …

Objective: To assess and compare the lot quality assurance sampling against cluster
sampling in the evaluation of primary immunization coverage. Study Design: Population …

Background: Immunization against childhood disease is one of the most cost effective public
health interventions available and has saved the lives of millions of children in the past three …

The size of a population n̂ in a dynamic setting can be estimated using closed population
capture-recapture techniques. This entails drawing a sample from a sampling frame denoted …

This paper compared the performance of the lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) method
in identifying inadequately-performing health work-areas with that of using health and …

The quality of vaccination services provided for children aged 12-23 months was determined
in different districts of Istanbul, Turkey. Quality was assessed through a lot quality assurance …

Context: Universal immunization of children is crucial and cost-effective public health
intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality. Evaluation of immunization coverage …