Title |
Improving estimates of insecticide-treated mosquito net coverage from household surveys: using geographic coordinates to account for endemicity
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, July 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-13-254 |
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Authors |
Clara R Burgert, Sarah EK Bradley, Fred Arnold, Erin Eckert |
Abstract |
Coverage estimates of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are often calculated at the national level, but are intended to be a proxy for coverage among the population at risk of malaria. The analysis uses data for surveyed households, linking survey enumeration areas (clusters) with levels of malaria endemicity and adjusting coverage estimates based on the population at risk. This analysis proposes an approach that is not dependent on being able to identify malaria risk in a location during the survey design (since survey samples are typically selected on the basis of census sampling frames that do not include information on malaria zones), but rather being able to assign risk zones after a survey has already been completed. |
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