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Effect of insecticide-treated bed net usage on under-five mortality in northern Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, August 2015
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Title
Effect of insecticide-treated bed net usage on under-five mortality in northern Ghana
Published in
Malaria Journal, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12936-015-0827-8
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Clifford Afoakwah, Jacob Nunoo, Francis Kwaw Andoh

Abstract

Although under-five mortality rate seems to be declining in Ghana, the northern part of the country has higher levels of under-five mortality vis-à-vis the national rates. This research examines the correlates of the high under-five mortality among children in the northern part of Ghana, with emphasis on the usage of insecticide-treated bed net (ITN), as recommended by the World Health Organization. A total of 3,839 under-five children sourced from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey-was used for this study. Univariate descriptive statistics was employed to describe the variables used for the empirical estimation. The maximum likelihood estimation technique was used to estimate a logit model in other to determine the effect of insecticide treated bed net usage on under-five mortality. Insecticide-treated bed net usage among children enhances their survival rates. Thus, under-five mortality among children who sleep under treated bed nets is about 18.8% lower than among children who do not sleep under treated bed nets. While health facility delivery was found to reduce to reduce under-five mortality, child bearing among older women is detrimental to the survival of the child. The study, therefore, recommends that policies targeting reduction in under-five mortality in northern Ghana should consider not mere availability of ITNs in the household, but advocate the usage of these treated nets. The study recommends to the Ministry of Health to extend their services to unreached rural communities to encourage health facility delivery to reduce under-five mortality.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malawi 1 <1%
Unknown 179 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 24%
Student > Bachelor 23 13%
Researcher 18 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 10%
Student > Postgraduate 17 9%
Other 24 13%
Unknown 36 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 25 14%
Social Sciences 20 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 3%
Other 32 18%
Unknown 38 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2017.
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#2,809,613
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#613
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#35,354
of 268,642 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#12
of 105 outputs
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