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-[{"authors":["ernestguevarra"],"categories":null,"content":"I have more than 15 years of professional experience in community and public health in humanitarian crises and developing country-settings, including as a community health worker, medical doctor, and recently as specialised expert and head of metrics, analytics and technology for Valid International. I have expertise in spatial epidemiology, geo-statistics, and statistical programming using R. In my recent role as Head of Measures for Valid International, I led the design, development and implementation of innovative surveys and assessments on health and nutrition and bespoke analytical approaches that leverage the advantages of Bayesian statistics and resampling techniques.\nI am a founding member of Katilingban, a collective of public health and nutrition experts and practitioners. I am currently part of the Oxford COVID-19 Modelling Consortium (CoMo Consortium) Philippines team or CoMo-PH along with two other public health practitioners from the Philippines. We aim to test and compare the CoMo Consortium model with existing local models that have previously been developed.\n","date":1713490020,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":1713490020,"objectID":"676aadfcf5944f17fb74f55e6ed17803","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/ernest-guevarra/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/ernest-guevarra/","section":"authors","summary":"I have more than 15 years of professional experience in community and public health in humanitarian crises and developing country-settings, including as a community health worker, medical doctor, and recently as specialised expert and head of metrics, analytics and technology for Valid International.","tags":null,"title":"Ernest Guevarra","type":"authors"},{"authors":["admin"],"categories":null,"content":"We are a collective of public health and nutrition experts and practitioners.\n","date":1554595200,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":1554595200,"objectID":"2525497d367e79493fd32b198b28f040","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/katilingban/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/katilingban/","section":"authors","summary":"We are a collective of public health and nutrition experts and practitioners.","tags":null,"title":"Katilingban","type":"authors"},{"authors":["agoza"],"categories":null,"content":"Aziz has strong expertise in nutrition issues management (planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) and a proven experience in data management, database design and mHealth (ODK, Dimagi, Smartphone). Aziz has managed nutrition survey programmes (KAP, LQAS, SQUEAC, SMART) with strong field experience through the whole Sahel area (Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Niger). He has advanced knowledge in epidemiology and biostatistics and use of statistical software packages such as SPSS, Sphinx, EpiData, and ENA for SMART. Aziz has expertise in adult training and community mobilisation.\n","date":-62135596800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":-62135596800,"objectID":"2180b7a173ccd11589b0fbfbc93e1654","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/abdoul-aziz-goza/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/abdoul-aziz-goza/","section":"authors","summary":"Aziz has strong expertise in nutrition issues management (planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) and a proven experience in data management, database design and mHealth (ODK, Dimagi, Smartphone). Aziz has managed nutrition survey programmes (KAP, LQAS, SQUEAC, SMART) with strong field experience through the whole Sahel area (Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Niger).","tags":null,"title":"Abdoul-Aziz Goza","type":"authors"},{"authors":["emandalazi"],"categories":null,"content":"I am a public health professional with more than 12 years of professional experience in humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan African and Asian regions.\nI am an expert in qualitative study approaches such as the Focused Ethnographic Studies (FES). I have contributed to the design, implementation and evaluation of the community mobilisation/outreach component of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes using interactive and participatory approaches to social research in both emergency and development interventions. This involves conducting rapid socio-cultural context assessments and analysis of local socio-political structures, health attitudes and health seeking behaviours, and barriers to access to develop context-specific and culturally appropriate community mobilisation/SBCC strategies.\nI am also experienced in assessing, designing, implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes using survey tools such as the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) and Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SLEAC).\n","date":-62135596800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":-62135596800,"objectID":"e1925ff2e27299d8a93664ec9c1eb4cd","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/emmanuel-mandalazi/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/emmanuel-mandalazi/","section":"authors","summary":"I am a public health professional with more than 12 years of professional experience in humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan African and Asian regions.\nI am an expert in qualitative study approaches such as the Focused Ethnographic Studies (FES).","tags":null,"title":"Emmanuel Mandalazi","type":"authors"},{"authors":["lfieschi"],"categories":null,"content":"Technical support and evaluation: nutrition programmes for the treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition. Technical assistance was provided on all areas related to the design and implementation of CTC programmes. This included training programmes for partner NGOs and local ministry of health medical and logistics staff; establishment of outpatient clinics in local health centres; advising on logistics of community outreach programmes; advising on integration of systems with local, regional and national ministry of health programme; support and evaluation of programme systems including community outreach, case-finding, programme admission, triage and referral, discharge, case follow up and patient recording systems; establishment of stabilisation centres within hospitals (TFUs); evaluation of nutrition programmes at all stages.\n","date":-62135596800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":-62135596800,"objectID":"528973d51410bcc9ee43dd6cec234880","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/lionella-fieschi/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/lionella-fieschi/","section":"authors","summary":"Technical support and evaluation: nutrition programmes for the treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition. Technical assistance was provided on all areas related to the design and implementation of CTC programmes.","tags":null,"title":"Lionella Fieschi","type":"authors"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"Flexibility This feature can be used for publishing content such as:\nOnline courses Project or software documentation Tutorials The courses folder may be renamed. For example, we can rename it to docs for software/project documentation or tutorials for creating an online course.\nDelete tutorials To remove these pages, delete the courses folder and see below to delete the associated menu link.\nUpdate site menu After renaming or deleting the courses folder, you may wish to update any [[main]] menu links to it by editing your menu configuration at config/_default/menus.toml.\nFor example, if you delete this folder, you can remove the following from your menu configuration:\n[[main]] name = \u0026quot;Courses\u0026quot; url = \u0026quot;courses/\u0026quot; weight = 50 Or, if you are creating a software documentation site, you can rename the courses folder to docs and update the associated Courses menu configuration to:\n[[main]] name = \u0026quot;Docs\u0026quot; url = \u0026quot;docs/\u0026quot; weight = 50 Update the docs menu If you use the docs layout, note that the name of the menu in the front matter should be in the form [menu.X] where X is the folder name. Hence, if you rename the courses/example/ folder, you should also rename the menu definitions in the front matter of files within courses/example/ from [menu.example] to [menu.\u0026lt;NewFolderName\u0026gt;].\n","date":1536451200,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"section","lang":"en","lastmod":1536451200,"objectID":"59c3ce8e202293146a8a934d37a4070b","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/","publishdate":"2018-09-09T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/courses/example/","section":"courses","summary":"Learn how to use Academic's docs layout for publishing online courses, software documentation, and tutorials.","tags":null,"title":"Overview","type":"docs"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"In this tutorial, I\u0026rsquo;ll share my top 10 tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\nTip 2 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\n","date":1557010800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1557010800,"objectID":"74533bae41439377bd30f645c4677a27","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/example1/","publishdate":"2019-05-05T00:00:00+01:00","relpermalink":"/courses/example/example1/","section":"courses","summary":"In this tutorial, I\u0026rsquo;ll share my top 10 tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum.","tags":null,"title":"Example Page 1","type":"docs"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"Here are some more tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\nTip 4 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\n","date":1557010800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1557010800,"objectID":"1c2b5a11257c768c90d5050637d77d6a","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/example2/","publishdate":"2019-05-05T00:00:00+01:00","relpermalink":"/courses/example/example2/","section":"courses","summary":"Here are some more tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum.","tags":null,"title":"Example Page 2","type":"docs"},{"authors":[],"categories":null,"content":" Click on the Slides button above to view the built-in slides feature. Slides can be added in a few ways:\nCreate slides using Academic\u0026rsquo;s Slides feature and link using slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Upload an existing slide deck to static/ and link using url_slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Embed your slides (e.g. Google Slides) or presentation video on this page using shortcodes. Further talk details can easily be added to this page using Markdown and $\\rm \\LaTeX$ math code.\n","date":1906549200,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1906549200,"objectID":"96344c08df50a1b693cc40432115cbe3","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/talk/example/","publishdate":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/talk/example/","section":"talk","summary":"An example talk using Academic's Markdown slides feature.","tags":[],"title":"Example Talk","type":"talk"},{"authors":["Ernest Guevarra"],"categories":["Software","R"],"content":"We just launched the tenth release (version 0.5.5) of ppitables, our R package containing Poverty Probability Index (PPI®) lookup tables for the 61 countries where PPI® can be calculated. The PPI® is a poverty measurement tool for organisations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor created by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).\nInitially released in March of 2018, ppitables has now been downloaded more than 27,000 times by R users averaging 375 downloads per month.\nWe developed ppitables to support our use of the PPI® for surveys and assessments we have conducted. Our main use case for PPI® is as an alternative means to classify wealth in our survey sample as opposed to the more widely used and traditional household asset listing and application of principal components analysis (PCA) for household wealth ranking used by the World Bank and by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Using the answers to just 10 questions about a household\u0026rsquo;s characteristics and asset ownership, a score is calculated and the likelihood of a household living below poverty line is computed. To learn more about the PPI®, its history and development, go here. To read more about how to use PPI®, click here.\nThe ppitables package is aimed at R users whose work and/or research includes the use of the PPI®. The package facilitates the conversion of country-specific household PPI® score into a poverty likelihood value for a household. Users can immediately write appropriate scripts to convert data they may have of a sample of households in a particular country into the respective poverty probabilities using the country-specific lookup tables.\nIn this tenth iteration of the package, we have added new tables released by IPA since 2020 which use the current approach for calculating poverty probabilities. For more information about ppitables and how to use it, visit the package website. To view the package source code, see the package\u0026rsquo;s GitHub repository.\nIf you have used ppitables before or have used it recently, we\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you for feedback and comments. If you find a bug or error or would like to request additional feature/s, file an issue here.\n","date":1713490020,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1713490020,"objectID":"4c082b09a52dfd20c6ed9ba40783768b","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/post/ppitables-update/","publishdate":"2024-04-19T01:27:00Z","relpermalink":"/post/ppitables-update/","section":"post","summary":"Latest version release of ppitables R package that provides lookup tables for estimating the likelihood of poverty using the Poverty Probability Index (previously called Progress out of Poverty Index) or PPI from country-specific indicators collected from cross-sectional surveys.","tags":["poverty","ppi"],"title":"ppitables R package update","type":"post"},{"authors":["Ernest Guevarra"],"categories":["Software","R"],"content":" National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NiPN) is an initiative of the European Commission to provide support to countries to strengthen their information systems for nutrition and to improve the analysis of data so as to better inform the strategic decisions they are faced with to prevent malnutrition and its consequences.\nAs part of this mandate, NiPN has commissioned work on the development of a toolkit to assess the quality of various nutrition-specific and nutrition-related data. This is a companion R package to the toolkit of practical analytical methods that can be applied to variables in datasets to assess their quality.\nThe focus of the toolkit is on data required to assess anthropometric status such as measurements of weight, height or length, MUAC, sex and age. The focus is on anthropometric status but many of presented methods could be applied to other types of data. 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The focus is on anthropometric status but many of presented methods could be applied to other types of data. NiPN may commission additional toolkits to examine other variables or other types of variables.","tags":["nutrition","nipn","toolkit"],"title":"National Information Platforms for Nutrition Data Quality Toolkit","type":"post"},{"authors":["Ernest Guevarra"],"categories":["Software","R"],"content":" en-net is the go to online forum for field practitioners requiring prompt technical advice for operational challenges for which answers are not readily accessible in current guidelines. The questions and the corresponding answers raised within en-net online forum can provide insight into what the key topics of discussion are within the nutrition sector. This package provides utility functions for the extraction, processing and analysis of text data from the online forum.\nWhat does ennet do? The ennet package has two key sets of functions:\nThe first set of functions facilitates the extraction of text data from the en-net online forum.\nThe second set of functions supports the analysis of the extracted datasets to produce summary measures and statistics of the en-net online forum.\nUsage The ennet data extraction workflow ennet package provides a set of functions that extracts information from the en-net online forum. This set of functions was built on top of the rvest package which provides robust and performant web scraping functions and the dplyr package which provides a full suite of data manipulation functions. The ennet package was designed to be able to interact with how the en-net online forum has been structured.\nen-net website structure The en-net online forum website has a very clear and clean structure. The opening page is a list of thematic areas which are linked to each of their respective webpages. In each of these thematic area webpages is another list, this time a list of topics raised within the thematic area. These topics are the text that an online user provides as the title for the question she/he is going to ask. Each of the topics are then again linked to their respective webpages that show the actual full question raised and the ensuing responses and discussion stemming from that question.\nBased on this structure, the following functions are available from the ennet package for extracting text data:\nget_themes - function to get a list of thematic areas in the forum;\nget_theme_topics and get_themes_topics - functions to get list of topics for a specific thematic area or thematic areas; and,\nget_topic_discussions and get_topics_discussions - functions to get list of discussions for a specific topic or topics,\nFor a more detailed discussion of the data extraction workflow via the ennet package, read Utilities to Extract Text Data from en-net.\nThe ennet analytics functions The ennet package also includes analytic functions that summarises the text data available from the en-net online forum. Currently, there are four analytic functions available from ennet:\ncount_topics - function to count the number of topics or questions by theme and date;\ncount_authors - function to count the number of topics attributed to a specific author;\narrange_views - function to arrange topics by number of views; and,\narrange_replies - function to arrange topics by number of replies.\nFor a more detailed discussion of the analytics functions available from the ennet package, read Summarising en-net online forum statistics.\nUtilities and datasets In addition to these two sets of key functions, ennet package also includes a function - update_topics - that extracts the en-net online forum dataset and updates it at a given time interval. This is a convenience wrapper function to get_themes_topics that is potentially useful for those who wants to build dashboards or applications that uses data from the en-net online forum.\nTwo datasets are also included in the en-net package. The first dataset is a data.frame of en-net online forum themes and the second dataset is a data.frame of en-net online forum topics.\nPractical applications The en-net online forum is a rich resource for understanding the community of users that participate in it. And given how an online forum is designed, that resource can be tapped relatively easily given that the documentation of the interaction and discussion between its users happens in real-time. The ennet package facilitates the access to that information through the statistical analysis tool R with which further levels of analysis can be applied to generate meaningful and valuable understanding of this specific community and to some extent the greater nutrition sector at large.\nFollowing are a few practical and meaningful applications of the information generated by the en-net online forum.\nAssess effectiveness of the en-net online forum The data from the en-net online forum can be used to assess effectiveness of the forum. Effectiveness can be defined as whether the forum has been able to achieve its stated aims/objectives when it was started. Effectiveness can also be expressed in terms of indicators or metrics that reflect overarching principles, ideals or values that those who started the forum adhere to or that the community of users and the wider sector or society believe in. These may include values of inclusion, participation, scientific rigour among others. Given that the forum has been in existence for many years now, information is available over the same period allowing for assessing temporal variation in effectiveness (as defined). This application is a more normative approach and will involve creating or developing metrics or taking relevant metrics from other sectors and applying those to this case.\nIdentify gaps in information, knowledge and/or skills Given the nature of the en-net online forum as a quick point of recourse for field practitioners to seek answers to practical questions and challenges faced, it can be expected that the data from the forum contains information on what these topics are. These information can then be used to identify most common or most important information, knowledge and skills that have been asked about. By identifying these gaps in information, knowledge and/or skills and by understanding the evolution of these needs over time, we can potentially predict training needs in the near term and over time. This application is a more formative approach in that we let the data tell us what information it holds.\nSummary The ennet package provides R users access to text data from the en-net online forum which can be used for various purposes. 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The PPI® is a poverty measurement tool for organisations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor created by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).\nInitially released in March of 2018, ppitables has now been downloaded by more than 12,000 R users averaging more than 500 downloads per month.\nWe developed ppitables to support our use of the PPI® for surveys and assessments we have conducted. Our main use case for PPI® is as an alternative means to classify wealth in our survey sample as opposed to the more widely used and traditional household asset listing and application of principal components analysis (PCA) for household wealth ranking used by the World Bank and by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Using the answers to just 10 questions about a household\u0026rsquo;s characteristics and asset ownership, a score is calculated and the likelihood of a household living below poverty line is computed. To learn more about the PPI®, its history and development, go here. To read more about how to use PPI®, click here.\nThe ppitables package is aimed at R users whose work and/or research includes the use of the PPI®. The package facilitates the conversion of country-specific household PPI® score into a poverty likelihood value for a household. Users can immediately write appropriate scripts to convert data they may have of a sample of households in a particular country into the respective poverty probabilities using the country-specific lookup tables.\nIn this eighth iteration of the package, we have added the most recently released lookup tables for Malawi that uses IPA\u0026rsquo;s current approach to calculating poverty probabilities. For more information about ppitables and how to use it, visit the package website. To view the package source code, see the package\u0026rsquo;s GitHub repository.\nIf you have used ppitables before or have used it recently, we\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you for feedback and comments. 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A Cebuano word meaning 1) a group or a community of people; 2) society, organisation or club.\nIt is at times of extreme social struggle and difficulty that we are reminded of the primacy of the collective and the value of working towards the common good. The current global health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic along with the social upheaval caused by the continuing and persistent racial injustice in the United States recently sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer and which has grown into a worldwide Black Lives Matter movement are the signs of the times. And these are the times when the power of collective action towards the common good is even more crucial.\nIt is against this backdrop that I, together with three other colleagues, have founded Katilingban, a collective of multi-disciplinary experts and practitioners in public health and nutrition. Though coming from different nationalities and diverse backgrounds and experiences, one of our main commonalities is our community-based orientation - from a doctor who ran a community-based mental health programme for civil war-affected children and youth in the Philippines, to a public health practitioner who studies and works with communities to understand their context to inform health and nutrition programming, to a community health and nutrition expert who has performed multiple coverage assessments and evaluations of community-based nutrition programmes in the past decade illustrating how the community aspect of these programmes has mostly been poorly done, and to a nutrition data expert who has implemented numerous nutrition surveys to aid in the design and planning of nutrition programmes advocating for more community participation in programme design and planning. And it is this community-based orientation that inspired us to form our own collective, to form Katilingban.\nFor the remainder of 2020, we would like to once again emphasise the importance of coverage of health and nutrition programming more so in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has disrupted health and nutrition in more ways than just the infection itself. The global focus on COVID-19 has potentially further widened disparities in other health and nutrition outcomes particularly in low and middle income countries through a variety of mechanisms. We would like to collaborate with other organisations and researchers who are keen on assessing the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of health and nutrition in low and middle income countries. 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This involves conducting rapid socio-cultural context assessments and analysis of local socio-political structures, health attitudes and health seeking behaviours, and barriers to access to develop context-specific and culturally appropriate community mobilisation/SBCC strategies.\nI am also experienced in assessing, designing, implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes using survey tools such as the Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC) and Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SLEAC).\n","date":-62135596800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":-62135596800,"objectID":"e1925ff2e27299d8a93664ec9c1eb4cd","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/emmanuel-mandalazi/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/emmanuel-mandalazi/","section":"authors","summary":"I am a public health professional with more than 12 years of professional experience in humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan African and Asian regions.\nI am an expert in qualitative study approaches such as the Focused Ethnographic Studies (FES).","tags":null,"title":"Emmanuel Mandalazi","type":"authors"},{"authors":["lfieschi"],"categories":null,"content":"Technical support and evaluation: nutrition programmes for the treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition. Technical assistance was provided on all areas related to the design and implementation of CTC programmes. This included training programmes for partner NGOs and local ministry of health medical and logistics staff; establishment of outpatient clinics in local health centres; advising on logistics of community outreach programmes; advising on integration of systems with local, regional and national ministry of health programme; support and evaluation of programme systems including community outreach, case-finding, programme admission, triage and referral, discharge, case follow up and patient recording systems; establishment of stabilisation centres within hospitals (TFUs); evaluation of nutrition programmes at all stages.\n","date":-62135596800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"term","lang":"en","lastmod":-62135596800,"objectID":"528973d51410bcc9ee43dd6cec234880","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/author/lionella-fieschi/","publishdate":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/author/lionella-fieschi/","section":"authors","summary":"Technical support and evaluation: nutrition programmes for the treatment of severe and moderate acute malnutrition. Technical assistance was provided on all areas related to the design and implementation of CTC programmes.","tags":null,"title":"Lionella Fieschi","type":"authors"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"Flexibility This feature can be used for publishing content such as:\nOnline courses Project or software documentation Tutorials The courses folder may be renamed. For example, we can rename it to docs for software/project documentation or tutorials for creating an online course.\nDelete tutorials To remove these pages, delete the courses folder and see below to delete the associated menu link.\nUpdate site menu After renaming or deleting the courses folder, you may wish to update any [[main]] menu links to it by editing your menu configuration at config/_default/menus.toml.\nFor example, if you delete this folder, you can remove the following from your menu configuration:\n[[main]] name = \u0026quot;Courses\u0026quot; url = \u0026quot;courses/\u0026quot; weight = 50 Or, if you are creating a software documentation site, you can rename the courses folder to docs and update the associated Courses menu configuration to:\n[[main]] name = \u0026quot;Docs\u0026quot; url = \u0026quot;docs/\u0026quot; weight = 50 Update the docs menu If you use the docs layout, note that the name of the menu in the front matter should be in the form [menu.X] where X is the folder name. Hence, if you rename the courses/example/ folder, you should also rename the menu definitions in the front matter of files within courses/example/ from [menu.example] to [menu.\u0026lt;NewFolderName\u0026gt;].\n","date":1536451200,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"section","lang":"en","lastmod":1536451200,"objectID":"59c3ce8e202293146a8a934d37a4070b","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/","publishdate":"2018-09-09T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/courses/example/","section":"courses","summary":"Learn how to use Academic's docs layout for publishing online courses, software documentation, and tutorials.","tags":null,"title":"Overview","type":"docs"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"In this tutorial, I\u0026rsquo;ll share my top 10 tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\nTip 2 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\n","date":1557010800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1557010800,"objectID":"74533bae41439377bd30f645c4677a27","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/example1/","publishdate":"2019-05-05T00:00:00+01:00","relpermalink":"/courses/example/example1/","section":"courses","summary":"In this tutorial, I\u0026rsquo;ll share my top 10 tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum.","tags":null,"title":"Example Page 1","type":"docs"},{"authors":null,"categories":null,"content":"Here are some more tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\nTip 4 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum. Sed ac faucibus dolor, scelerisque sollicitudin nisi. Cras purus urna, suscipit quis sapien eu, pulvinar tempor diam. Quisque risus orci, mollis id ante sit amet, gravida egestas nisl. Sed ac tempus magna. Proin in dui enim. Donec condimentum, sem id dapibus fringilla, tellus enim condimentum arcu, nec volutpat est felis vel metus. Vestibulum sit amet erat at nulla eleifend gravida.\nNullam vel molestie justo. Curabitur vitae efficitur leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed pulvinar mauris dui, eget varius purus congue ac. Nulla euismod, lorem vel elementum dapibus, nunc justo porta mi, sed tempus est est vel tellus. Nam et enim eleifend, laoreet sem sit amet, elementum sem. Morbi ut leo congue, maximus velit ut, finibus arcu. In et libero cursus, rutrum risus non, molestie leo. Nullam congue quam et volutpat malesuada. Sed risus tortor, pulvinar et dictum nec, sodales non mi. Phasellus lacinia commodo laoreet. Nam mollis, erat in feugiat consectetur, purus eros egestas tellus, in auctor urna odio at nibh. Mauris imperdiet nisi ac magna convallis, at rhoncus ligula cursus.\nCras aliquam rhoncus ipsum, in hendrerit nunc mattis vitae. Duis vitae efficitur metus, ac tempus leo. Cras nec fringilla lacus. Quisque sit amet risus at ipsum pharetra commodo. Sed aliquam mauris at consequat eleifend. Praesent porta, augue sed viverra bibendum, neque ante euismod ante, in vehicula justo lorem ac eros. Suspendisse augue libero, venenatis eget tincidunt ut, malesuada at lorem. Donec vitae bibendum arcu. Aenean maximus nulla non pretium iaculis. Quisque imperdiet, nulla in pulvinar aliquet, velit quam ultrices quam, sit amet fringilla leo sem vel nunc. Mauris in lacinia lacus.\nSuspendisse a tincidunt lacus. Curabitur at urna sagittis, dictum ante sit amet, euismod magna. Sed rutrum massa id tortor commodo, vitae elementum turpis tempus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean purus turpis, venenatis a ullamcorper nec, tincidunt et massa. Integer posuere quam rutrum arcu vehicula imperdiet. Mauris ullamcorper quam vitae purus congue, quis euismod magna eleifend. Vestibulum semper vel augue eget tincidunt. Fusce eget justo sodales, dapibus odio eu, ultrices lorem. Duis condimentum lorem id eros commodo, in facilisis mauris scelerisque. Morbi sed auctor leo. Nullam volutpat a lacus quis pharetra. Nulla congue rutrum magna a ornare.\nAliquam in turpis accumsan, malesuada nibh ut, hendrerit justo. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque sed erat nec justo posuere suscipit. Donec ut efficitur arcu, in malesuada neque. Nunc dignissim nisl massa, id vulputate nunc pretium nec. Quisque eget urna in risus suscipit ultricies. Pellentesque odio odio, tincidunt in eleifend sed, posuere a diam. Nam gravida nisl convallis semper elementum. Morbi vitae felis faucibus, vulputate orci placerat, aliquet nisi. Aliquam erat volutpat. Maecenas sagittis pulvinar purus, sed porta quam laoreet at.\n","date":1557010800,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1557010800,"objectID":"1c2b5a11257c768c90d5050637d77d6a","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/courses/example/example2/","publishdate":"2019-05-05T00:00:00+01:00","relpermalink":"/courses/example/example2/","section":"courses","summary":"Here are some more tips for getting started with Academic:\nTip 3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis posuere tellus ac convallis placerat. Proin tincidunt magna sed ex sollicitudin condimentum.","tags":null,"title":"Example Page 2","type":"docs"},{"authors":[],"categories":null,"content":" Click on the Slides button above to view the built-in slides feature. Slides can be added in a few ways:\nCreate slides using Academic\u0026rsquo;s Slides feature and link using slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Upload an existing slide deck to static/ and link using url_slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Embed your slides (e.g. Google Slides) or presentation video on this page using shortcodes. Further talk details can easily be added to this page using Markdown and $\\rm \\LaTeX$ math code.\n","date":1906549200,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1906549200,"objectID":"96344c08df50a1b693cc40432115cbe3","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/talk/example/","publishdate":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","relpermalink":"/talk/example/","section":"talk","summary":"An example talk using Academic's Markdown slides feature.","tags":[],"title":"Example Talk","type":"talk"},{"authors":["Ernest Guevarra"],"categories":["Announcement"],"content":"Vitamin and mineral deficiencies continue to be a significant public health problem. This is particularly critical in developing countries where deficiencies to vitamin A, iron, iodine, and other micronutrients lead to adverse health consequences. Cross-sectional surveys are helpful in answering questions related to the magnitude and distribution of deficiencies of selected vitamins and minerals.\nOur work on micronutrient surveys motivated us to develop an R package that aids in the processing and analysis of micronutrient biomarkers data taken during cross-sectional surveys. Our micronutr package has been released recently on CRAN. This package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines found here.\nWhat does micronutr do? The micronutr package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies using R. Currently, micronutr has functions for:\nDetecting haemoglobinaemia or anaemia based on an individual\u0026rsquo;s serum haemoglobin level;\nDetecting inflammation status based on c-reactive protein (CRP) and alpha(1)-acid-glycoprotein (AGP);\nDetecting iron deficiency status based on an individual\u0026rsquo;s serum ferritin level;\nDetecting iodine deficiency status based on a population\u0026rsquo;s mean urinary iodine concentration.\n","date":1713497400,"expirydate":-62135596800,"kind":"page","lang":"en","lastmod":1713497400,"objectID":"aacff0cb585faa3f894081249a8aab45","permalink":"https://katilingban.io/post/micronutr/","publishdate":"2024-04-19T03:30:00Z","relpermalink":"/post/micronutr/","section":"post","summary":"We are a collective of multi-disciplinary experts and practitioners of public health and nutrition.","tags":["katilingban","public health","nutrition"],"title":"Determining vitamin and mineral status in populations","type":"post"},{"authors":["Ernest Guevarra"],"categories":["Software","R"],"content":"We just launched the tenth release (version 0.5.5) of ppitables, our R package containing Poverty Probability Index (PPI®) lookup tables for the 61 countries where PPI® can be calculated. The PPI® is a poverty measurement tool for organisations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor created by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).\nInitially released in March of 2018, ppitables has now been downloaded more than 27,000 times by R users averaging 375 downloads per month.\nWe developed ppitables to support our use of the PPI® for surveys and assessments we have conducted. Our main use case for PPI® is as an alternative means to classify wealth in our survey sample as opposed to the more widely used and traditional household asset listing and application of principal components analysis (PCA) for household wealth ranking used by the World Bank and by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Using the answers to just 10 questions about a household\u0026rsquo;s characteristics and asset ownership, a score is calculated and the likelihood of a household living below poverty line is computed. To learn more about the PPI®, its history and development, go here. To read more about how to use PPI®, click here.\nThe ppitables package is aimed at R users whose work and/or research includes the use of the PPI®. The package facilitates the conversion of country-specific household PPI® score into a poverty likelihood value for a household. Users can immediately write appropriate scripts to convert data they may have of a sample of households in a particular country into the respective poverty probabilities using the country-specific lookup tables.\nIn this tenth iteration of the package, we have added new tables released by IPA since 2020 which use the current approach for calculating poverty probabilities. For more information about ppitables and how to use it, visit the package website. To view the package source code, see the package\u0026rsquo;s GitHub repository.\nIf you have used ppitables before or have used it recently, we\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you for feedback and comments. 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The ennet package has two key sets of functions:\nThe first set of functions facilitates the extraction of text data from the en-net online forum.\nThe second set of functions supports the analysis of the extracted datasets to produce summary measures and statistics of the en-net online forum.\nUsage The ennet data extraction workflow ennet package provides a set of functions that extracts information from the en-net online forum. This set of functions was built on top of the rvest package which provides robust and performant web scraping functions and the dplyr package which provides a full suite of data manipulation functions. The ennet package was designed to be able to interact with how the en-net online forum has been structured.\nen-net website structure The en-net online forum website has a very clear and clean structure. The opening page is a list of thematic areas which are linked to each of their respective webpages. In each of these thematic area webpages is another list, this time a list of topics raised within the thematic area. These topics are the text that an online user provides as the title for the question she/he is going to ask. Each of the topics are then again linked to their respective webpages that show the actual full question raised and the ensuing responses and discussion stemming from that question.\nBased on this structure, the following functions are available from the ennet package for extracting text data:\nget_themes - function to get a list of thematic areas in the forum;\nget_theme_topics and get_themes_topics - functions to get list of topics for a specific thematic area or thematic areas; and,\nget_topic_discussions and get_topics_discussions - functions to get list of discussions for a specific topic or topics,\nFor a more detailed discussion of the data extraction workflow via the ennet package, read Utilities to Extract Text Data from en-net.\nThe ennet analytics functions The ennet package also includes analytic functions that summarises the text data available from the en-net online forum. Currently, there are four analytic functions available from ennet:\ncount_topics - function to count the number of topics or questions by theme and date;\ncount_authors - function to count the number of topics attributed to a specific author;\narrange_views - function to arrange topics by number of views; and,\narrange_replies - function to arrange topics by number of replies.\nFor a more detailed discussion of the analytics functions available from the ennet package, read Summarising en-net online forum statistics.\nUtilities and datasets In addition to these two sets of key functions, ennet package also includes a function - update_topics - that extracts the en-net online forum dataset and updates it at a given time interval. This is a convenience wrapper function to get_themes_topics that is potentially useful for those who wants to build dashboards or applications that uses data from the en-net online forum.\nTwo datasets are also included in the en-net package. The first dataset is a data.frame of en-net online forum themes and the second dataset is a data.frame of en-net online forum topics.\nPractical applications The en-net online forum is a rich resource for understanding the community of users that participate in it. And given how an online forum is designed, that resource can be tapped relatively easily given that the documentation of the interaction and discussion between its users happens in real-time. The ennet package facilitates the access to that information through the statistical analysis tool R with which further levels of analysis can be applied to generate meaningful and valuable understanding of this specific community and to some extent the greater nutrition sector at large.\nFollowing are a few practical and meaningful applications of the information generated by the en-net online forum.\nAssess effectiveness of the en-net online forum The data from the en-net online forum can be used to assess effectiveness of the forum. Effectiveness can be defined as whether the forum has been able to achieve its stated aims/objectives when it was started. Effectiveness can also be expressed in terms of indicators or metrics that reflect overarching principles, ideals or values that those who started the forum adhere to or that the community of users and the wider sector or society believe in. These may include values of inclusion, participation, scientific rigour among others. Given that the forum has been in existence for many years now, information is available over the same period allowing for assessing temporal variation in effectiveness (as defined). This application is a more normative approach and will involve creating or developing metrics or taking relevant metrics from other sectors and applying those to this case.\nIdentify gaps in information, knowledge and/or skills Given the nature of the en-net online forum as a quick point of recourse for field practitioners to seek answers to practical questions and challenges faced, it can be expected that the data from the forum contains information on what these topics are. These information can then be used to identify most common or most important information, knowledge and skills that have been asked about. By identifying these gaps in information, knowledge and/or skills and by understanding the evolution of these needs over time, we can potentially predict training needs in the near term and over time. 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The PPI® is a poverty measurement tool for organisations and businesses with a mission to serve the poor created by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).\nInitially released in March of 2018, ppitables has now been downloaded by more than 12,000 R users averaging more than 500 downloads per month.\nWe developed ppitables to support our use of the PPI® for surveys and assessments we have conducted. Our main use case for PPI® is as an alternative means to classify wealth in our survey sample as opposed to the more widely used and traditional household asset listing and application of principal components analysis (PCA) for household wealth ranking used by the World Bank and by the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Using the answers to just 10 questions about a household\u0026rsquo;s characteristics and asset ownership, a score is calculated and the likelihood of a household living below poverty line is computed. To learn more about the PPI®, its history and development, go here. To read more about how to use PPI®, click here.\nThe ppitables package is aimed at R users whose work and/or research includes the use of the PPI®. The package facilitates the conversion of country-specific household PPI® score into a poverty likelihood value for a household. Users can immediately write appropriate scripts to convert data they may have of a sample of households in a particular country into the respective poverty probabilities using the country-specific lookup tables.\nIn this eighth iteration of the package, we have added the most recently released lookup tables for Malawi that uses IPA\u0026rsquo;s current approach to calculating poverty probabilities. For more information about ppitables and how to use it, visit the package website. To view the package source code, see the package\u0026rsquo;s GitHub repository.\nIf you have used ppitables before or have used it recently, we\u0026rsquo;d love to hear from you for feedback and comments. 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A Cebuano word meaning 1) a group or a community of people; 2) society, organisation or club.\nIt is at times of extreme social struggle and difficulty that we are reminded of the primacy of the collective and the value of working towards the common good. The current global health crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic along with the social upheaval caused by the continuing and persistent racial injustice in the United States recently sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer and which has grown into a worldwide Black Lives Matter movement are the signs of the times. And these are the times when the power of collective action towards the common good is even more crucial.\nIt is against this backdrop that I, together with three other colleagues, have founded Katilingban, a collective of multi-disciplinary experts and practitioners in public health and nutrition. Though coming from different nationalities and diverse backgrounds and experiences, one of our main commonalities is our community-based orientation - from a doctor who ran a community-based mental health programme for civil war-affected children and youth in the Philippines, to a public health practitioner who studies and works with communities to understand their context to inform health and nutrition programming, to a community health and nutrition expert who has performed multiple coverage assessments and evaluations of community-based nutrition programmes in the past decade illustrating how the community aspect of these programmes has mostly been poorly done, and to a nutrition data expert who has implemented numerous nutrition surveys to aid in the design and planning of nutrition programmes advocating for more community participation in programme design and planning. And it is this community-based orientation that inspired us to form our own collective, to form Katilingban.\nFor the remainder of 2020, we would like to once again emphasise the importance of coverage of health and nutrition programming more so in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has disrupted health and nutrition in more ways than just the infection itself. The global focus on COVID-19 has potentially further widened disparities in other health and nutrition outcomes particularly in low and middle income countries through a variety of mechanisms. We would like to collaborate with other organisations and researchers who are keen on assessing the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of health and nutrition in low and middle income countries. And given the limitations posed by the pandemic, we would like to explore the use of relatively new or less utilised modalities of primary data collection and to test and utilise other analytical techniques on already existing secondary data and routine programme data taht would allow us to still examine and understand the on-going health and nutrition situation other than COVID-19.\nInterested in collaborating? 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+
+ Determining vitamin and mineral status in populations
+ https://katilingban.io/post/micronutr/
+ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:30:00 +0000
+ https://katilingban.io/post/micronutr/
+ <p>Vitamin and mineral deficiencies continue to be a significant public health problem. This is particularly critical in developing countries where deficiencies to vitamin A, iron, iodine, and other micronutrients lead to adverse health consequences. Cross-sectional surveys are helpful in answering questions related to the magnitude and distribution of deficiencies of selected vitamins and minerals.</p>
+<p>Our work on micronutrient surveys motivated us to develop an R package that aids in the processing and analysis of micronutrient biomarkers data taken during cross-sectional surveys. Our
+<a href="https://nutriverse.io/micronutr" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>micronutr</code> package</a> has been released recently on
+<a href="https://cran.r-project.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CRAN</a>. This package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines found
+<a href="https://www.who.int/teams/nutrition-and-food-safety/databases/vitamin-and-mineral-nutrition-information-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
+<h2 id="what-does-micronutr-do">What does <code>micronutr</code> do?</h2>
+<p>The <code>micronutr</code> package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies using R. Currently, <code>micronutr</code> has functions for:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>Detecting <strong>haemoglobinaemia</strong> or anaemia based on an individual’s <em>serum haemoglobin</em> level;</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Detecting <strong>inflammation</strong> status based on <em>c-reactive protein (CRP)</em> and <em>alpha(1)-acid-glycoprotein (AGP)</em>;</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Detecting <strong>iron deficiency</strong> status based on an individual’s <em>serum ferritin</em> level;</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Detecting <strong>iodine deficiency</strong> status based on a population’s mean urinary iodine concentration.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+<br>
+<br>
+
+
+
ppitables R package update
https://katilingban.io/post/ppitables-update/
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Vitamin and mineral deficiencies continue to be a significant public health problem. This is particularly critical in developing countries where deficiencies to vitamin A, iron, iodine, and other micronutrients lead to adverse health consequences. Cross-sectional surveys are helpful in answering questions related to the magnitude and distribution of deficiencies of selected vitamins and minerals.
+
Our work on micronutrient surveys motivated us to develop an R package that aids in the processing and analysis of micronutrient biomarkers data taken during cross-sectional surveys. Our
+micronutr package has been released recently on
+CRAN. This package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines found
+here.
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What does micronutr do?
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The micronutr package provides tools for determining select vitamin and mineral deficiencies using R. Currently, micronutr has functions for:
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Detecting haemoglobinaemia or anaemia based on an individual’s serum haemoglobin level;
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Detecting inflammation status based on c-reactive protein (CRP) and alpha(1)-acid-glycoprotein (AGP);
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Detecting iron deficiency status based on an individual’s serum ferritin level;
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Detecting iodine deficiency status based on a population’s mean urinary iodine concentration.
I am a public health specialist with a particular interest in health and nutrition metrics and analytics, and in spatial epidemiology. I develop fit-for-purpose R packages as part of my work with data.
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+ Image credit: Jacopo Maia on Unsplash
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