Socio-demographic factors, housing characteristics, and clinical symptoms associated with falciparum malaria in two rapidly urbanizing areas in the Ashanti region of Ghana
Children between 0 and 5 years and those aged between 6 and 14 years continue to shoulder the highest burden of malaria. Efforts to improve housing characteristics such as installation of roofing ceiling, screening doors, and clearing potential mosquito breeding sites should be encouraged in these rapidly urbanizing areas.
Authors
- Thomas Kwame Addison
- Stephen Opoku Afriyie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8334-5332)
- Dawood Ackom Abbas
- Kofi Agyapong Addo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3284-7957)
- Austine Tweneboah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2296-5084)
- Eric Osei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6567-1591)
- Kwasi Baako Antwi
- Abdul‐Hakim Mutala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2556-6823)
- Kingsley Badu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-5528)
- Cristian Koepfli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9354-0414)
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- University of Health and Allied Sciences (GH)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (GH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Malaria Journal
- Published
- 2024-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-05185-6
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Malaria Research and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71
Funders
- European Commission
- European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership