Improving estimates of insecticide-treated mosquito net coverage from household surveys: Using geographic coordinates to account for endemicity

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Burgert, Clara R ^a   Bradley, Sarah Ek ^a,b   Arnold, Fred ^a   Eckert, Erin ^c  

^a ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic and Health Survey (DHS); Endemicity; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Global Positioning System (GPS); Insecticide treated nets (ITNs); Intervention coverage; Malaria Atlas Project (MAP); Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS); Malaria interventions; Roll Back Malaria (RBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BED NET; BURUNDI; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; RWANDA; SENEGAL; TANZANIA; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; AGED; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907260762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-254     Document Type: Article

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