A Comprehensive Needs Assessment Tool for Planning Rheumatic Heart Disease Control Programs in Limited Resource Settings

We present a RHD Needs Assessment Tool (NAT) that can be used at country or regional levels to systematically develop and plan comprehensive RHD control programs and to provide baseline data for program monitoring and evaluation. The RHD NAT follows a mixed-methods approach using quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments.

Source: CVD Prevention and Control - February 27, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Liesl J. Z ühlke, David A. Watkins, Susan Perkins, Rosemary Wyber, Jeremiah Mwangi, Joanna Markbreiter, Hlengiwe S. Moloi, Mark E. Engel, Thembikile Shato, Tayla Hermanus, Jantina DeVries, Clancy Read Tags: Innovations and Concepts Source Type: research