Sentence examples for malaria mortality data from inspiring English sources

Malaria mortality data were extracted from the WMR [10].

The public availability of these malaria mortality data creates interesting opportunities for further analyses.

Apart from contributing to the overall body of malaria mortality data, there are several other ways in which they may be specifically useful.

Some types of data, for example re-stratifying age-specific malaria mortality data which is typically aggregated and reported for all children under 5, may not be difficult.

Data were available for 14 sites with childhood malaria mortality data; data were not available for seven sites in Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and Ethiopia, presumably because of very low or uncertain endemicity.

Both of these sources take the approach of gathering whatever malaria mortality data may be available across all endemic areas (to which this dataset now adds), and then making best estimates to fill in the considerable gaps in the available data.

This paper is motivated by the analysis of malaria-related hospital mortality data collected at patient's level, covering a period of two years among children admitted to a referral district hospital in Malawi.

In this paper, we set out to analyse risk factors of malaria mortality, using hospital register data.

Approximately 13% (51/379) of patients had malaria parasitemia which mostly (86.3%) consisted of 1+ parasitemia; level of malaria parasitemia was not associated with mortality (data previously shown) [27].

While one can debate the generalisability of HDSS sites (53), the cross-site relationships established here between gridded parasite prevalence data and childhood malaria mortality, and between child and adult malaria mortality rates, could well be incorporated into wider estimations of malaria mortality.

This is in keeping with recently published data on age-specific malaria mortality rates from a number of sites in Africa, which showed the peak age of malaria deaths to be in children under 1 year of age [11].