Open AccessA field test of three LQAS designs to assess the prevalence of acute malnutrition
Author(s) -
Megan Deitchler,
Joseph J. Valadez,
Kari Egge,
Secundino Fernández,
Mary Hennigan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym092
Subject(s) - malnutrition , environmental health , medicine , test (biology) , severe acute malnutrition , biology , paleontology
The conventional method for assessing the prevalence of Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) in emergency settings is the 30 x 30 cluster-survey. This study describes alternative approaches: three Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) designs to assess GAM. The LQAS designs were field-tested and their results compared with those from a 30 x 30 cluster-survey.
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