Malaria paediatric hospitalization between 1999 and 2008 across Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intervention coverage and funding for the control of malaria in Africa has increased in recent years, however, there are few descriptions of changing disease burden and the few reports available are from isolated, single site observations or are of reports at country-level. Here we present a nationwide assessment of changes over 10 years in paediatric malaria hospitalization across Kenya.

Methods

Paediatric admission data on malaria and non-malaria diagnoses were assembled for the period 1999 to 2008 from in-patient registers at 17 district hospitals in Kenya and represented the diverse malaria ecology of the country. These data were then analysed using autoregressive moving average time series models with malaria and all-cause admissions as the main outcomes adju

SUBMITTER: Okiro EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2802588 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature