Trends in treatment-seeking for fever in children under five years old in 151 countries from 1990 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: Access to medical treatment for fever is essential to prevent morbidity and mortality in individuals and to prevent transmission of communicable febrile illness in communities. Quantification of the rates at which treatment is accessed is critical for health system planning and a prerequisite for disease burden estimates. In this study, national data on the proportion of children under five years old with fever who were taken for medical treatment were collected from all available countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia (n = 91). We used generalised additive mixed models to estimate 30-year trends in the treatment-seeking rates across the majority of countries in these regions (n = 151). Our results show that the proportions of febrile children brought for medical treatment increased

SUBMITTER: Nguyen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10446233 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature