Rapid Assessment for Decision Making: Efficient Methods for Data Collection andAnalysis

摘要

Programs in health, or any other field of development assistance, are only asgood as the information on which they are based. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on devising simple, inexpensive, and rapid methods of gathering information on disease rates, lifestyles, socioeconomic conditions, and factors contributing to both ill health and utilization of services. This volume assembles and synthesizes information on these rapid assessment methods to make them easily accessible to planners and policymakers. Although the methods are described principally as they apply to the field of health--and in particular health conditions relating to water supply and sanitation--the methods may also be applied in other contexts and so should be of wide interest.