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ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND CHILDHOOD FEVER IN AREAS OF THE OUAGADOUGOU HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, BURKINA FASO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2014

FRANKLIN BOUBA DJOURDEBBÉ ,
STÉPHANIE DOS SANTOS ,
THOMAS K. LEGRAND  and
ABDRAMANE BASSIAHI SOURA
FRANKLIN BOUBA DJOURDEBBÉ*
Affiliation:
Department of Demography, University of Montreal, Canada Laboratory Population-Environment-Development-LPED (IRD-AMU), Marseille, France
STÉPHANIE DOS SANTOS
Affiliation:
Laboratory Population-Environment-Development-LPED (IRD-AMU), Marseille, France ISSP, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
THOMAS K. LEGRAND
Affiliation:
Department of Demography, University of Montreal, Canada
ABDRAMANE BASSIAHI SOURA
Affiliation:
ISSP, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
*
1Corresponding author. Email: francklin.bouba@umontreal.ca
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Using data on 825 under-5 children from the Ouagadougou Health and Demographic Surveillance System collected in 2010, this article examines the effects of aspects of the immediate environment on childhood fever. Logit regression models were estimated to assess the effects of the quality of the local environment on the probability that a child is reported to have had a fever in the two weeks preceding the survey, after controlling for various demographic and socioeconomic variables. While the estimated impact of some environmental factors persisted in the full models, the effects of variables such as access to water and type of household waste management decreased in the presence of demographic, socioeconomic and neighbourhood factors. The management of waste water was found to significantly affect the occurrence of childhood fever. Overall, the results of the study call for more efforts to promote access to tap water to households at prices that are affordable for the local population, where the threats to child health appears to be greatest.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , July 2015 , pp. 536 - 553
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