Trachoma and Relative Poverty: A Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trachoma is widely considered a disease of poverty. Although there are many epidemiological studies linking trachoma to factors normally associated with poverty, formal quantitative data linking trachoma to household economic poverty within endemic communities is very limited.

Methodology/principal findings

Two hundred people with trachomatous trichiasis were recruited through community-based screening in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. These were individually matched by age and gender to 200 controls without trichiasis, selected randomly from the same sub-village as the case. Household economic poverty was measured through (a) A broad set of asset-based wealth indicators and relative household economic poverty determined by principal component analysis (PCA, (b) Self-ra

SUBMITTER: Habtamu E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4657919 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature