Severe-malaria infection and its outcomes among pregnant women in Burkina Faso health-districts: Hierarchical Bayesian space-time models applied to routinely-collected data from 2013 to 2018.

ABSTRACT: Fine-scale hotspots detection is crucial for optimum delivery of essential health-services for reducing severe malaria in pregnancy (MiP) and death cases in Burkina Faso. This study used hierarchical-Bayesian Spatio-temporal modeling to explore space-time patterns and pinpoint health-districts with an exceedance probability of severe MiP incidence and fatality rate. Study also assessed effect of health-district service delivery (readiness) on severe-MiP outcomes. Severe-MiP fatality rate declined considerably while its incidence rate remained unchanged between January-2013 and December-2018. Severe-MiP cases persisted throughout the year with peaks between August and November. These peaks increased 2.5-fold the fatality rate. Furthermore, severe-MiP fatality was higher in health-districts

SUBMITTER: Rouamba T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613547 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature