Changing malaria intervention coverage, transmission and hospitalization in Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reports of declining incidence of malaria disease burden across several countries in Africa suggest that the epidemiology of malaria across the continent is in transition. Whether this transition is directly related to the scaling of intervention coverage remains a moot point.

Methods

Paediatric admission data from eight Kenyan hospitals and their catchments have been assembled across two three-year time periods: September 2003 to August 2006 (pre-scaled intervention) and September 2006 to August 2009 (post-scaled intervention). Interrupted time series (ITS) models were developed adjusting for variations in rainfall and hospital use by surrounding communities to show changes in malaria hospitalization over the two periods. The temporal changes in factors that migh

SUBMITTER: Okiro EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2972305 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature