Principal component analysis of socioeconomic factors and their association with malaria in children from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Krefis, Anne Caroline ^a   Schwarz, Norbert Georg ^a   Nkrumah, Bernard ^c   Acquah, Samuel ^c   Loag, Wibke ^a   Sarpong, Nimako ^c   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^d   Ranft, Ulrich ^b   May, Jürgen ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PARENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PARENTS; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77954395879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-201     Document Type: Article

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