Title |
Modelling typhoid risk in Dhaka Metropolitan Area of Bangladesh: the role of socio-economic and environmental factors
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Published in |
International Journal of Health Geographics, March 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1476-072x-12-13 |
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Authors |
Robert J Corner, Ashraf M Dewan, Masahiro Hashizume |
Abstract |
Developing countries in South Asia, such as Bangladesh, bear a disproportionate burden of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera, typhoid and paratyphoid. These seem to be aggravated by a number of social and environmental factors such as lack of access to safe drinking water, overcrowdedness and poor hygiene brought about by poverty. Some socioeconomic data can be obtained from census data whilst others are more difficult to elucidate. This study considers a range of both census data and spatial data from other sources, including remote sensing, as potential predictors of typhoid risk. Typhoid data are aggregated from hospital admission records for the period from 2005 to 2009. The spatial and statistical structures of the data are analysed and principal axis factoring is used to reduce the degree of co-linearity in the data. The resulting factors are combined into a quality of life index, which in turn is used in a regression model of typhoid occurrence and risk. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
France | 1 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
South Africa | 1 | <1% |
United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 119 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 21 | 17% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 16% |
Researcher | 18 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
Other | 5 | 4% |
Other | 22 | 18% |
Unknown | 32 | 26% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 22% |
Social Sciences | 15 | 12% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 9% |
Environmental Science | 8 | 6% |
Engineering | 7 | 6% |
Other | 21 | 17% |
Unknown | 35 | 28% |