Effect of meteorological factors on clinical malaria risk among children: An assessment using village-based meteorological stations and community-based parasitological survey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yé, Yazoumé ^a   Louis, Valérie R ^b   Simboro, Séraphin ^c   Sauerborn, Rainer ^b  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARASITOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BURKINA FASO; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH; INTERVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

CHLOROQUINE; RAIN;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BURKINA FASO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLOROQUINE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL HEALTH; TEMPERATURE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34447265071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-101     Document Type: Article

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