Burden of Disease Research Unit
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Demographic & Health Survey 1998 |
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Acknowledgements
Dr
Ayanda Ntsaluba
Director
General, Department of Health
The 1998 SADHS is a project which was initiated and primarily
funded by the Department of Health. In its implementation several organisations
and numerous individuals put a great deal of effort into ensuring that the
project was conducted to the best of our abilities. In the first instance,
I wish to express my gratitude to the National Health Information Systems
Committee colleagues in the Provincial Departments of Health and the National
Department of Health for the various roles they played in the course of this
project.
I would like to
use this opportunity to thank the staff of the Medical Research Council (MRC)
for their role in coordinating the design of the survey and the sample, the
questionnaire development and pilot testing, writing supervisors' and interviewers'
manuals, and data processing. The MRC also played an important role in organising
the field staff training, monitoring fieldwork and drafting reports. My special
thanks in this regard goes to Dr Debbie Bradshaw for ensuring the smooth co-ordination
of the fieldwork by the MRC.
My thanks also
goes to the Centre for Health Systems Research and Development at the University
of Free State in partnership with King Finance for implementing the fieldwork.
Let me also use this opportunity to express my gratitude to the Human Sciences
Research Council for their assistance in the survey planning and design, as
well as in the training, fieldwork monitoring, analysis and report writing
and to Statistics South Africa, for their assistance with drawing up the sample.
Many thanks to Macro International Inc. of Calverton, Maryland for providing
technical assistance to the project as part of its international Demographic
and Health Surveys program, and the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID)/South Africa for paying for the technical assistance to
the project.
I would like to
express my sincere appreciation to the members of the project management committee,
the project technical team and all the technical consultants to the project
for their contributions to the project.
I would like to
thank Mrs Golda Chimere-Dan (Coordinator of the SADHS in the Department of
Health) Ms Nolwazi Mbananga (SADHS Coordinator), and Ms Annie Cross (Macro
International) for their effort in producing this preliminary report on time.
Finally, thanks go to Dr L E Makubalo for directing the SADHS project. |
