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Laos National Health Survey 2000

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General Info
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
03/2000 - 11/2000
Data type
Survey:
  • Community
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Laos National Health Survey 2000 was conducted simultaneously with and in conjunction with the Laos MICS 2000. The NHS included several extra components beyond the MICS questionnaires on maternal and child health, including blood tests for serum retinol (Vitamin A deficiency) and malaria, urine tests for iodine deficiency, vision exams, and examinations of goiters by palpatation and ultrasound. Data collection for the MICS portion of the survey ended in April 2000, but NHS data collection continued with rounds in July and November. The NHS interviewed 3,635 women between the ages of 15-49, and 5,133 children under the age of 5.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Anemia, Antenatal care, Anthropometry, Antimalarials, BCG vaccines, Back pain, Birth certificates, Birth weight, Blood tests, Breastfeeding, Breathing difficulty, Child anthropometry, Child labor, Cough, DTP vaccines, Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Domestic violence, Drug supply, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Eye examinations, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Fever, Goiter, Headache, Health care access, Health status, Home care, Hospitals, Housing materials, Immunization, Income, Injuries, Insecticide-treated bednets, Iodine deficiency, Iodine supplements, Iron supplements, Literacy, Livestock, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Mass media, Measles vaccines, Medicines, Night blindness, Occupational injuries, Oral rehydration therapy, Pain, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Poisonings, Polio vaccines, Pregnancy, Prescriptions, Private health facilities, Pruritus, Public health facilities, Road traffic injuries, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Skilled birth attendants, Skin diseases, Suicide, Symptoms, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Traditional medicine, Urinary diseases, Urine tests, Vaccination cards, Varicella, Vision loss, Vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplements, Vomiting, Water supply, Weight, Whooping cough, Body mass index
GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 18, 2021