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cord-253251-i79h14f7	Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin	An investigation of district spatial variations of childhood diarrhoea and fever morbidity in Malawi	2005-09-01		.txt	text/plain	6526	312	51	In particular, the results suggest that children living in the capital city are less affected by fever, although this is not true for diarrhoea, where some urban agglomerations are associated with a higher childhood morbidity risk. The study applied Bayesian statistical and geo-statistical techniques to the 2000 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of Malawi with location (district) attributes and other information to answer specific questions about geographic inequalities in childhood disease prevalence. To gain an understanding of the geographic variation or patterns based on the observed morbidity prevalence, a Bayesian hierarchical model was fitted, with the inclusion of spatial (district) and nonlinear metrical (mother's and child's age) covariates. Geo-additive logistic models were used (on the probability of a child having diarrhoea and fever during the reference period) to determine the socio-economic and demographic variables that are associated with the ailments while simultaneously controlling for spatial dependence in the data and possible nonlinear effects of covariates.	./cache/cord-253251-i79h14f7.txt	./txt/cord-253251-i79h14f7.txt