ArticleInternational health2023
Regional and socio-economic disparity in use of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria among pregnant women in Kenya.
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- Health-related quality of life due to malaria: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Insecticide-treated bed net utilization and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Malaria journal · 2023Pooled it
- Socio-demographic predictors of insecticide-treated bed net ownership and utilization for protection against malaria by rural community members across five regions of Mainland Tanzania.Malaria journal · 2026Article
- Between-and within-socioeconomic groups temporal inequality in the uptake of malaria prevention strategies among pregnant women and under-five children in Ghana (2003-2022).Malaria journal · 2025Article
- An eco-epidemiological model for malaria withModeling earth systems and environment · 2025Article
- A decline in the coverage and utilization of long-lasting insecticidal nets in Southern Ethiopia: A repeated cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Low long-lasting insecticidal net use in malaria elimination areas in Southern Ethiopia: results from community based cross-sectional study.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- The oral repellent - science fiction or common sense? Insects, vector-borne diseases, failing strategies, and a bold proposition.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2023Review
- Inequalities in the use of insecticide-treated nets by pregnant women in Ghana, 2011 and 2017.Malaria journal · 2022Article
- Systematic Review of Mixed Studies on Malaria in Pregnancy: Individual, Cultural and Socioeconomic Determinants of Its Treatment and Prevention.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundInsecticide-treated net (ITN) use is among the most recommended strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy. We analysed the regional and socio-economic patterns of ITN use among pregnant women in Kenya using data from the 2003, 2008 and 2014 Kenyan Demographic and Health Surveys (KDHSs).
methodsInequality was assessed using four dimensions: economic status, education, place of residence and region. Both relative and absolute summary measures were applied. In addition, simple and complex summary measures, i.e. difference, population attributable fraction, population attributable risk and ratio were considered based on the number of subgroups in each variable.
resultsThere was overt inequality in the use of ITNs among pregnant women, with greater use among the better-off group in 2003 and 2014. Greater ITN use was also observed among pregnant women with a higher level of education. Pregnant women from urban settings tended to use ITNs (slept under a net the night before the survey) more than their rural counterparts in the 2003 KDHS. There were significant regional variations across the three surveys in all inequality summary measures, except ratio in the 2014 survey.
conclusionsSignificant inequality in ITN use among pregnant women was observed at a macro scale.
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