Ian Ross

Please use SanQoL-5 in your monitoring, evaluation, trials, etc! It is already being used by WSUP, World Vision, and Sanergy. Some FAQs on SanQoL-5 are on the website (www.SanQoL.org)

We also found good evidence of cross-cultural comparability, with <10% of 75 inter-country comparisons suggesting questions were being interpreted differently.

Our results show that sanitation implementers & researchers can use SanQoL-5 to monitor & evaluate sanitation progs. We found support for 87% of the hypotheses we tested about how SanQoL-5 scores vary with toilet characteristics such as locks on doors, quality of walls, or faeces being visible.

Validity and reliability of the Sanitation-related Quality of Life index (SanQoL-5) in six countries - Nature Water The Sanitation-related Quality of Life index (SanQoL-5) combines answers to five questions (disgust, privacy, disease, shame and safety) into a score ranging from 0 to 1. This study found good evidenc...

Our study reporting the validity and reliability of the sanitation-related quality of life index (SanQoL-5) in 6 countries is out today in Nature Water.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

When health data go dark A call to restore DHS Program funding

Implications of USAID cuts for DHS
www.itg.be/en/health-st...

DHS data are critical for understanding progress on WASH, and alongside MICS are the most reliable datapoints underpinning the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme estimates.

What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm? Some thoughts in response to questions I get from students and young professionals

Great post from @kopalo.bsky.social on "what will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm?"
www.africanistperspective.com/p/what-will-...
It's not just about USAID.
Post is focused on students/young prof, but of importance to all of us.

see also:
- tried to get ChatGPT to write datetime code (it failed)

Ian Ross on LinkedIn: Our study reporting a discrete choice experiment to value the SanQoL-5… Our study reporting a discrete choice experiment to value the SanQoL-5 index in Mozambique was published in Value in Health (Regional Issues). Link in comments…

To arrive at these weights, we used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) reported in this study.
More details here - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Great collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Saúde as part of the Maputo Sanitation Trial.
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If a given population thinks that avoiding disgust is more important than avoiding shame, then the weights should reflect this, e.g. 0.22 for disgust and 0.18 for shame instead of 0.20 for both.
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The 5 answers are combined as an index ranging 0-1, but the five attributes are not weighted equally.
Why?
Because for a measure to be used cost-effectiveness or benefit-cost analysis, attributes should be weighted according to people's values.
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The SanQoL-5 is a validated index which measures people’s experience of sanitation with 5 questions about privacy, disgust, safety, shame, and disease – more details on the website [www.sanqol.org]
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Valuing an Index of Sanitation-Related Quality of Life in Urban Mozambique: A Discrete Choice Experiment A total of 1.5 billion people live without basic sanitation. A 5-attribute index of sanitation-related quality of life (SanQoL-5) has been applied in 9 countries. SanQoL-5 attributes and their levels ...

Our study reporting a discrete choice experiment to value the SanQoL-5 index in Mozambique was published www.valuehealthregionalissues.com/article/S221...
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Great to spend 2 days with (most of) the LSHTM health economists. Lots of ideas and opportunities for collaboration!