Journal article
National and sub-national variation in patterns of febrile case management in sub-Saharan Africa
- Abstract:
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Given national healthcare coverage gaps, understanding treatment-seeking behaviour for fever is crucial for the management of childhood illness and to reduce deaths. Here, we conduct a modelling study triangulating household survey data for fever in children under the age of five years with georeferenced public health facility databases (n = 86,442 facilities) in 29 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, to estimate the probability of seeking treatment for fever at public facilities. A Bayesian...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Department for International Development
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Funding agency for:
Snow, R
Grant:
203155
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Communications Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Article number:
- 4994
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-07
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2041-1723
- Source identifiers:
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946360
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pubs:946360
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- pubs:946360
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Alegana et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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