Misclassification error and performance of individual, household, community and country risk factors for malaria infection among sub-Saharan children under five
| Autor: | Yves Coppieters, Elvire Mfueni Bikundi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Sub saharan 030231 tropical medicine malaria lcsh:Medicine Diagnostic tools Santé publique General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology diagnostic tools 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health parasitic diseases medicine Applied Psychology Under-five endemicity lcsh:R sub-saharan african countries Country risk medicine.disease Misclassification error 030104 developmental biology Geography Malaria performance |
| Zdroj: | Cogent Medicine, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2018) Cogent Medicine |
| Popis: | Very often, health workers are faced with lack of diagnostic materials in sub-Saharan countries, while the need is enormous because of several endemic problems affecting most often children. Malaria is one of the great public health problems in sub-Saharan African countries where 114 million people were infected in 2015, with approximately 400,000 deaths. Only 76% of persons suspected to be infected by malaria were submitted to a malaria diagnostic test in the public sector. The objective of our study is to analyze the classification error and the prediction performance of individuals, households, communities and countries factors as a diagnostic indicator for malaria parasite infection, considering the endemicity of household cluster. 61,292 children of 16 African countries from DHS and MIS surveys were included in analysis. Households and countries factors are the best sensitive tools for the malaria diagnosis among sub-Saharan African children with sensitivities more than 90% in low endemicity areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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