A significant methodological challenge in implementing community-based cluster-randomized trials is how to accurately categorize cluster residency when data are collected at a site distant from households.
Almost a fifth of families in Nigeria send a child away to be brought up in another household, often that of a cousin or distant family member.
This explanation is also supported by the observation that there is no difference between low middle- and high-income countries when analyses are limited to household contacts, because we would expect the risk in more distant, non-household contacts to be less influenced by the recent exposure to the index case and more influenced by general population risk factors.
By delivering affordable solar panels to the most under served regions of our planet, SELF captures the sun's free and abundant energy to power pumps that provide distant water for households and irrigation.
34 The authors suggested that it is possible that the added responsibilities of CHWs in the iCCM strategy could be interfering with their ability to extend services to households distant from the health post, particularly in their demand generation and community mobilization activities.
Despite the name, Lycaon pictus is a distant relative of household canines.
Previous community-based studies with the same need to identify cluster residents while at a site distant from the household have used several other methods, including patient-carried referral cards and key-informant systems (9, 17).
As part of the campaign, every household in Ireland received a blank postcard to be used to invite distant relatives home, but I don't think you have to wait to be asked.
Viewers are informed that the term paterfamilias does not mean father of the family, but head of the household, and a Roman household included distant relatives and hundreds of slaves.
By placing a family member in a distant labour market, the household gains access to liquidity (through remittances) and income insurance (because of a low correlation between incomes in migrant labour markets and farm production; the correlation between remittances and farm production may even be negative, as when migrants respond to crop failure by increasing the share of earnings they remit).
On the other hand, as the household is distant from the proximate market and the main road, and a number of oxen the farm household owns have the significantly negative impact on the likelihood of simultaneous adoption likelihood by the farm household on both activities in Northwest Ethiopia.
