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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: | Shalu Thomas, Sangamithra Ravishankaran, Aswin Asokan, N. A. Johnson Amala Justin, T. Maria Jusler Kalsingh, Manu Thomas Mathai, Neena Valecha, Alex Eapen |
| المصدر: | Malaria Journal, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Urban malaria, Breeding habitats, Overhead tanks, Occupation, Approachability, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216 |
| الوصف: | Abstract 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 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1475-2875 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-017-2150-z; https://doaj.org/toc/1475-2875 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-017-2150-z |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/bc16685f6533416588d3ef0ac52099bd |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.bc16685f6533416588d3ef0ac52099bd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12936-017-2150-z |