Relationship between child survival and malaria transmission: An analysis of the malaria transmission intensity and mortality burden across Africa (MTIMBA) project data in Rufiji demographic surveillance system, Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rumisha, Susan F ^a,b,d   Smith, Thomas A ^a,b   Masanja, Honorati ^c   Abdulla, Salim ^c   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Child mortality; DSS; EIR; Malaria; Mortality transmission relation; MTIMBA; Time varying covariates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DYING; ENTOMOLOGY INOCULATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH STATISTICS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INOCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL; TANZANIA; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALARIA; MALE; TANZANIA;

EID: 84899486666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-124     Document Type: Article

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