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SUBMITTER: Alegana VA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6255762 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alegana Victor A VA Maina Joseph J Ouma Paul O PO Macharia Peter M PM Wright Jim J Atkinson Peter M PM Okiro Emelda A EA Snow Robert W RW Tatem Andrew J AJ
Nature communications 20181126 1
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 it ...[more]