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Use of proxy measures in estimating socioeconomic inequalities in malaria prevalence

Date

Authors

Somi, Masha

Butler, James

Vahid, Farshid

Njau, Joseph

Kachur, S Patrick

Abdulla, Salim

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Objectives: To present and compare socioeconomic status (SES) rankings of households using consumption and an asset-based index as two alternative measures of SES; and to compare and evaluate the performance of these two measures in multivariate analyses

Keywords

Keywords: comparative study; disease prevalence; malaria; measurement method; multivariate analysis; principal component analysis; socioeconomic status; adolescent; adult; age; article; bed net; child; comparative study; controlled study; disease association; fever Asset index; Consumption; Malaria; Socioeconomic status; Tanzania

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/19659

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02009.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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