Mapping tuberculosis prevalence in Ethiopia: protocol for a geospatial meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB), a major public health concern in Ethiopia, is distributed heterogeneously across the country. Mapping TB prevalence at national and subnational levels can provide information for designing and implementing control strategies. Data for spatial analysis can be obtained through systematic review of the literature, and spatial prediction can be done by meta-analysis of published data (geospatial meta-analysis). Geospatial meta-analysis can increase the power of spatial analytic models by making use of all available data. It can also provide a means for spatial prediction where new survey data in a given area are sparse or not available. In this report, we present a protocol for a geospatial meta-analysis to investigate the spatial patterns of TB prevalen

SUBMITTER: Alene KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7252965 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature