Socio-demographic and household attributes may not necessarily influence malaria: evidence from a cross sectional study of households in an urban slum setting of Chennai, India
| العنوان: | Socio-demographic and household attributes may not necessarily influence malaria: evidence from a cross sectional study of households in an urban slum setting of Chennai, India |
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| المؤلفون: | Alex Eapen, Shalu Thomas, Sangamithra Ravishankaran, Aswin Asokan, Manu Thomas Mathai, Neena Valecha, T. Maria Jusler Kalsingh, N. A. Johnson Amala Justin |
| المصدر: | Malaria Journal Malaria Journal, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Approachability, Cross-sectional study, Socio demographics, Breeding habitats, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Poverty Areas, Surveys and Questionnaires, Prevalence, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Aged, 80 and over, Occupation, Family Characteristics, Confounding, 1. No poverty, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Infectious Diseases, Geography, Child, Preschool, Female, Urban slum, Urban malaria, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, Adolescent, lcsh:RC955-962, 030231 tropical medicine, India, lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Environmental health, parasitic diseases, medicine, Animals, Humans, lcsh:RC109-216, Overhead tanks, Aged, Research, Public health, Infant, medicine.disease, Malaria, Cross-Sectional Studies, Socioeconomic Factors, Vector (epidemiology), Tropical medicine, Parasitology |
| الوصف: | Background Household and environmental factors are reported to influence the malaria endemicity of a place. Hence, a careful assessment of these factors would, potentially help in locating the possible areas under risk to plan and adopt the most suitable and appropriate malaria control strategies. Methods A cross-sectional household survey was carried out in the study site, Besant Nagar, Chennai, through random sampling method from February 2014 to February 2015. A structured interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to assess selected variables of demography, structural particulars of a household, usage of repellents, animals on site, presence of breeding habitats and any mosquito/vector breeding in the household, malaria/vector control measures undertaken by government in each houses. The data was collected through one to one personal interview method, statistically analysed overall and compared between the households/people infected with malaria within a period of 1 year and their non-infected counterparts of the same area. Results Presence of malaria was found to be significantly associated with the occupation, number of inhabitants, presence of a separate kitchen, availability of overhead tanks and cisterns, immatures of vector mosquitoes, presence of mosquito breeding and type of roof structures (p |
| تدمد: | 1475-2875 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::55e99d5a9f055eb9f56974c368b643ec https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2150-z |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....55e99d5a9f055eb9f56974c368b643ec |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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