Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

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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Filmer,Deon P..

Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa (English). Policy, Research working paper|no. WPS 2798 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/660301468741682247

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