Modelling the relationship between malaria prevalence as a measure of transmission and mortality across age groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parasite prevalence has been used widely as a measure of malaria transmission, especially in malaria endemic areas. However, its contribution and relationship to malaria mortality across different age groups has not been well investigated. Previous studies in a health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) platform in western Kenya quantified the contribution of incidence and entomological inoculation rates (EIR) to mortality. The study assessed the relationship between outcomes of malaria parasitaemia surveys and mortality across age groups.

Methods

Parasitological data from annual cross-sectional surveys from the Kisumu HDSS between 2007 and 2015 were used to determine malaria parasite prevalence (PP) and clinical malaria (parasites plus reported fever with

SUBMITTER: Khagayi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651924 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature