The author empirically explores the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever--as an indicator of malaria--among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. He uses household Demographic and Health Survey data collected in the 1990s from 22 countries in which malaria is prevalent. The analysis reveals a positive, but weak, association between reported fever and poverty. The geographic association becomes insignificant, however...
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2002/03/31
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS2798
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2010/07/01
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Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
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