World Health Survey 2003

Zimbabwe, 2003

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Reference ID

ZWE_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Received treatment for malaria (q6569)

Data file: WHS-Zimbabwe_F5

Overview

Valid: 237

Invalid: 3863

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1807

End: 1810

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

During (NAME's) last episode of malaria, did (NAME) receive any treatment of take any medications for malaria?
If yes, what was taken?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	234	98.7%
5	No	3	1.3%
8	Do not know	0	0%
Sysmiss		3863

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

A response of "Antimalarial medication" as treatment received is only appropriate if the child was prescribed such by a physician or other qualified health worker. If the respondent first simply answers that the child was given treatment but without specifying the type (such as simply “pill or syrup”), the interviewer should probe whether it was an antibiotic, antimalarial or other type.

If No or DK : Go to Q6600

Description

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Questions only to be asked in malaria endemic areas.

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