Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.

Migori County is located in western Kenya bordering Lake Victoria and has traditionally performed poorly on important health metrics, including child mortality and HIV prevalence. The Lwala Community Alliance is a non-governmental organization that serves to promote the health and well-being of comm...

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Autores principales: Joseph R Starnes, Jane Wamae, Vincent Okoth, Daniele J Ressler, Vincent Were, Lawrence P O Were, Troy D Moon, Richard Wamai
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:79029e757d4a40288582a271b246ee662021-12-02T20:19:34ZPopulation-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256555https://doaj.org/article/79029e757d4a40288582a271b246ee662021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256555https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Migori County is located in western Kenya bordering Lake Victoria and has traditionally performed poorly on important health metrics, including child mortality and HIV prevalence. The Lwala Community Alliance is a non-governmental organization that serves to promote the health and well-being of communities in Migori County through an innovative model utilizing community health workers, community committees, and high-quality facility-based care. This has led to improved outcomes in areas served, including improvements in childhood mortality. As the Lwala Community Alliance expands to new programming areas, it has partnered with multiple academic institutions to rigorously evaluate outcomes. We describe a repeated cross-sectional survey study to evaluate key health metrics in both areas served by the Lwala Community Alliance and comparison areas. This will allow for longitudinal evaluation of changes in metrics over time. Surveys will be administered by trained enumerators on a tablet-based platform to maintain high data quality.Joseph R StarnesJane WamaeVincent OkothDaniele J ResslerVincent WereLawrence P O WereTroy D MoonRichard WamaiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0256555 (2021)
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Joseph R Starnes
Jane Wamae
Vincent Okoth
Daniele J Ressler
Vincent Were
Lawrence P O Were
Troy D Moon
Richard Wamai
Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
description Migori County is located in western Kenya bordering Lake Victoria and has traditionally performed poorly on important health metrics, including child mortality and HIV prevalence. The Lwala Community Alliance is a non-governmental organization that serves to promote the health and well-being of communities in Migori County through an innovative model utilizing community health workers, community committees, and high-quality facility-based care. This has led to improved outcomes in areas served, including improvements in childhood mortality. As the Lwala Community Alliance expands to new programming areas, it has partnered with multiple academic institutions to rigorously evaluate outcomes. We describe a repeated cross-sectional survey study to evaluate key health metrics in both areas served by the Lwala Community Alliance and comparison areas. This will allow for longitudinal evaluation of changes in metrics over time. Surveys will be administered by trained enumerators on a tablet-based platform to maintain high data quality.
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author Joseph R Starnes
Jane Wamae
Vincent Okoth
Daniele J Ressler
Vincent Were
Lawrence P O Were
Troy D Moon
Richard Wamai
author_facet Joseph R Starnes
Jane Wamae
Vincent Okoth
Daniele J Ressler
Vincent Were
Lawrence P O Were
Troy D Moon
Richard Wamai
author_sort Joseph R Starnes
title Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
title_short Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
title_full Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
title_fullStr Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
title_full_unstemmed Population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in Migori County, Kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): A study protocol.
title_sort population-based socio-demographic household assessment of livelihoods and health among communities in migori county, kenya over multiple timepoints (2021, 2024, 2027): a study protocol.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/79029e757d4a40288582a271b246ee66
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