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Treatment-seeking rates in malaria endemic countries

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, January 2016
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Title
Treatment-seeking rates in malaria endemic countries
Published in
Malaria Journal, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-1048-x
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Katherine E. Battle, Donal Bisanzio, Harry S. Gibson, Samir Bhatt, Ewan Cameron, Daniel J. Weiss, Bonnie Mappin, Ursula Dalrymple, Rosalind E. Howes, Simon I. Hay, Peter W. Gething

Abstract

The proportion of individuals who seek treatment for fever is an important quantity in understanding access to and use of health systems, as well as for interpreting data on disease incidence from routine surveillance systems. For many malaria endemic countries (MECs), treatment-seeking information is available from national household surveys. The aim of this paper was to assemble sub-national estimates of treatment-seeking behaviours and to predict national treatment-seeking measures for all MECs lacking household survey data. Data on treatment seeking for fever were obtained from Demographic and Health Surveys, Malaria Indicator Surveys and Multiple Cluster Indicator Surveys for every MEC and year that data were available. National-level social, economic and health-related variables were gathered from the World Bank as putative covariates of treatment-seeking rates. A generalized additive mixed model (GAMM) was used to estimate treatment-seeking behaviours for countries where survey data were unavailable. Two separate models were developed to predict the proportion of fever cases that would seek treatment at (1) a public health facility or (2) from any kind of treatment provider. Treatment-seeking data were available for 74 MECs and modelled for the remaining 24. GAMMs found that the percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal care, vaccination rates, education level, government health expenditure, and GDP growth were important predictors for both categories of treatment-seeking outcomes. Treatment-seeking rates, which varied both within and among regions, revealed that public facilities were not always the primary facility type used. Estimates of treatment-seeking rates show how health services are utilized and help correct reported malaria case numbers to obtain more accurate measures of disease burden. The assembled and modelled data demonstrated that while treatment-seeking rates have overall increased over time, access remains low in some malaria endemic regions and utilization of government services is in some areas limited.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Unknown 145 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 22%
Researcher 24 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Lecturer 7 5%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 30 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 36 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 7%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 46 31%
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