Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

National and sub-national variation in patterns of febrile case management in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Victor A. Alegana,
  • Joseph Maina,
  • Paul O. Ouma,
  • Peter M. Macharia,
  • Jim Wright,
  • Peter M. Atkinson,
  • Emelda A. Okiro,
  • Robert W. Snow,
  • Andrew J. Tatem

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07536-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Treatment-seeking for fever is widely used to estimate treatment of childhood infections, but cross-country comparisons are problematic. Here, the authors estimate the probability of seeking treatment for fever at public facilities across 29 countries by quantifying person-level latent variables.