Historical Perspective and Risk of Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases in Coastal Tanzania: Compositional and Contextual Determinants of Disease Risk

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dc.contributor.authorArmah, Frederick A.
dc.contributor.authorQuansah, Reginald
dc.contributor.authorLuginaah, Isaac
dc.contributor.authorChuenpagdee, Ratana
dc.contributor.authorHambati, Herbert
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Gwyn
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-08T12:17:27Z
dc.date.available2016-07-08T12:17:27Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.description.abstractIn the past decade, research on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has intensified in response to the need to enhance community participation in health delivery, establish monitoring and surveillance systems, and integrate existing disease-specific treatment programs to control overlapping NTD burdens and detrimental effects. In this paper, we evaluated the geographical distribution of NTDs in coastal Tanzania. We also assessed the collective (compositional and contextual) factors that currently determine risks to multiple NTDs using a cross sectional survey of 1253 individuals in coastal Tanzania. The results show that the effect size in decreasing order of magnitude for non-binary predictors of NTD risks is as follows: NTD comorbidities > poverty > educational attainment > self-reported household quality of life > ethnicity. The multivariate analysis explained 95% of the variance in the relationship between NTD risks and the theoretically-relevant covariates. Compositional (biosocial and sociocultural) factors explained more variance at the neighbourhood level than at the regional level, whereas contextual factors, such as access to health services and household quality, in districts explained a large proportion of variance at the regional level but individually had modest statistical significance, demonstrating the complex interactions between compositional and contextual factors in generating NTD risks. NTD risks were inequitably distributed over geographic space, which has several important policy implications. First, it suggests that localities of high burden of NTDs are likely to diminish within statistical averages at higher (regional or national) levels. Second, it indicates that curative or preventive interventions will become more efficient provided they can be focused on the localities, particularly as populations in these localities are likely to be burdened by several NTDs simultaneously, further increasing the imperative of multi-disease interventions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationArmah, F.A., Quansah, R., Luginaah, I., Chuenpagdee, R., Hambati, H. and Campbell, G., 2015. Historical perspective and risk of multiple neglected tropical diseases in Coastal Tanzania: compositional and contextual determinants of disease risk. PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 9(8), p.e0003939.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pntd.0003939 · Source: PubMed
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2900
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.titleHistorical Perspective and Risk of Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases in Coastal Tanzania: Compositional and Contextual Determinants of Disease Risken_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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