Conduct the survey regarding health issues in your family.
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Explanation:
Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.
DHS Survey Types
There are two types of DHS surveys:
Standard DHS Surveys have large sample sizes (usually between 5,000 and 30,000 households) and typically are conducted about every 5 years, to allow comparisons over time.
Interim DHS Surveys focus on the collection of information on key performance monitoring indicators but may not include data for all impact evaluation measures (such as mortality rates). These surveys are conducted between rounds of DHS surveys and have shorter questionnaires than DHS surveys. Although nationally representative, these surveys generally have smaller samples than DHS surveys.
DHS Survey Topics
Information is available for the following topics, among others:
Anemia - prevalence of anemia, iron supplementation
Child Health - vaccinations, childhood illness, newborn care
Domestic Violence (module) - prevalence of domestic violence and consequences of violence
Education - literacy, attendance, highest level achieved
Environmental Health - water, sanitation, cooking fuel
Family Planning - knowledge and use of contraceptives
Female Genital Cutting (module) - prevalence of and attitudes about female genital cutting
Fertility and Fertility Preferences - total fertility rate, desired family size, marriage and sexual activity
Gender/Domestic Violence - history of domestic violence, frequency and consequences of violence
HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior - knowledge of HIV prevention, misconceptions, stigma, higher-risk sexual behavior, previous HIV testing
HIV Prevalence - Prevalence of HIV by demographic and behavioral characteristics
Household and Respondent Characteristics - electricity, housing quality, possessions, education and school attendance, age, sex, employment
Infant and Child Mortality - infant and child mortality rates
Malaria - ownership and use of mosquito nets, prevalence and treatment of fever, indoor residual spraying for mosquitoes
Maternal Health - antenatal, delivery and postnatal care
Maternal Mortality (module)- maternal mortality ratio
Nutrition - child feeding practices, vitamin supplementation, anthropometry, anemia, salt iodization
Tobacco Use - tobacco use, exposure to second-hand smoke
Unmet Need for family planning
Wealth - division of households into 5 wealth quintiles to show relationship between wealth, population and health indicators
Women's Empowerment - gender attitudes, women’s decision making power, education and employment of men vs. women
Other modules - fistula, health expenditures