presented to the relevant health worker to assess the respondents' knowledge of process in patient care.<sup>70</sup>

# **Matlab Health and Socio-Economic Survey (MHSS)**

The MHSS was implemented in 1996, in Matlab, a rural region in Bangladesh. The general focus of the survey was on issues relating to health and well-being for rural adults and the elderly, including the effects on health status and health care utilization of socio-economic characteristics; health status, social and kin network characteristics and resource flows; community services and infrastructure. The study included a survey of individuals and households, a specialized outmigrant survey (sample of individuals who had left the households of the primary sample since 1982), and a community provider survey.

The provider survey covered seven types of health care providers, from government health complexes, family welfare centers, traditional practitioners, and community health workers. Separate instruments were used for each type of provider, although there were similarities in content. Clinical vignettes were administered to all providers.

# _Research and Publications_

- Frankenberg, E. 1995. "The effects of access to health care on infant mortality in Indonesia." _Health Transit Rev,_ 5:2, pp. 143-63.

- Frankenberg, E. and D. Thomas. 2001. "Women's Health and Pregnancy Outcomes: Do Services Make a Difference?" _Demography,_ 38:2, pp. 253-65.

- Gertler, P. J. and J. W. Molyneaux. 1994. "How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility." _Demography,_ 3 1: 1, pp. 33-63.

- Molyneaux, J. W. and P. J. Gertler. 2000. "The Impact of Targeted Family Planning Programs in Indonesia." _Population and Development Review,_ 26:0, pp. 61-85.

- Frankenberg, E., B. Sikoki, W. Suriastini, and D. Thomas. 2001. "Changes in the Use of Health Services During Indonesia's Economic Crisis." Processed.

# **_MEASURE Evaluation_**

MEASURE Evaluation is a project under the MEASURE Program.71 The main purpose of the project is to develop and apply methods for monitoring and evaluation in the areas of family planning; maternal health; sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS; nutrition; and infectious disease. MEASURE _Evaluation_ works in collaboration with programs in developing countries, USAID and other international donor agencies to (i) improve performance monitoring systems for tracking results; (ii) identify appropriate indicators, test their measurement, and establish needed data systems<sup>72</sup> ; and, (iii) evaluate

> 70 The vignettes covered: provision of IUDs, provision of oral contraceptives, prenatal care, treating a child with vomiting and diarrhea, and treating and adult with a respiratory illness.

> **71** The MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results) Program is funded by USAID since 1997. MEASURE mcludes five projects, which offer technical services in data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use Details can be found on http://www.measureprogram.org/.

> **72** This has included the establishment of a Facility Survey Working Group to determine the use and procedures for cntical aspects of data collection, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination.

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