Measuring population health: costs of alternative survey approaches in the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System in rural Burkina Faso

• Main Authors: Henrike Lietz (Author), Moustapha Lingani (Author), Ali Sié (Author), Rainer Sauerborn (Author), Aurelia Souares (Author), Yesim Tozan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: There are more than 40 Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites in 19 different countries. The running costs of HDSS sites are high. The financing of HDSS activities is of major importance, and adding external health surveys to the HDSS is challenging. To investigate the w...