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Interpreting Trends in Malaria Indicators Online Course

Course

Self-paced e-learning

Offered by

The Demographic and Health Surveys Program

Statistics Community

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Level: Introductory
Length: 1 hour
Regions: Africa; Europe and North America; Asia and the Pacific; Latin America and the Caribbean; Western Asia
Languages: English; French
Price: Free
Certificate: Yes

The purpose of this online course is to increase the capacity of participants to understand and interpret trends in population-based household survey malaria indicators to answer key malaria programmatic questions

SDG: SDG3: Good health and well-being for people

Subject: Health and Demographic Statistics

Statistics: Demographic and social statistics; Methodology and statistical processes; Household surveys

Keywords: demography; health; household survey; malaria; statistics

The workshop includes training on an introduction to sampling and weighting, examining confidence intervals for the interpretation of trends, generating graphics of key malaria trends, and interpreting the results for programmatic decision making.

Target Audience

Malaria program implementers at the national, regional, or district level.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Explain the sampling and weighting techniques used by The DHS Program
Recognize sampling errors that occur in a DHS survey and how these are displayed in reporting
Accurately interpret a malaria case study for programmatic decision making
Generate graphics of malaria trends in Excel