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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2014
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Reference ID
GHA_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Heard malaria message about ACT medicine recommendation (HH respondent) (C_MLMSGACTRECHH)

Data file: GHA2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 540
End: 540
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
136E) In the past 6 months, have you seen or heard any messages telling you that:

a) Treatment should be sought from health facilities within 24 hours or onset of fever, especially for children under 5 years?

b) The Ghana Health Service recommends ACT (Artesunate Amodiaquine/AA, Artemether Lumefantrin/AL, Dihydroartemisinine-Piperaquine/DHAP) as medicine for malaria treatment?

c) The full course of malaria medicine, ACT (artesunate Amodiaquine, Artemether Lumefantrin, Dihydroartemisinine-Piperaquine) should be completed?

d) Pregnant women should attend ANC and take 3 doses of SP/Fansidar during pregnancy to prevent malaria?

e) Families should sleep under Insecticides Treated Net to protect them from Malaria, especially pregnant women and children under five years?

SEEKING URGENT CARE

YES 1
NO 2

GHS RECOMMENDATION

YES 1
NO 2

COMPLETING FULL COURSE

YES 1
NO 2

ATTENDING ANC

YES 1
NO 2

SLEEPING UNDER NETS

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
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.

Description

Definition
MLMSGACTRECHH indicates whether, in response to a yes/no question, the respondent for the household survey reported having recently heard or seen a message recommending ACT [artemisinin-based combination therapy] medicine to treat malaria.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Antimalaria protection Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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