Malaria prevalence metrics in low- and middle-income countries: an assessment of precision in nationally-representative surveys

• Published in: Malaria Journal
• Main Authors: Victor A. Alegana, Jim Wright, Claudio Bosco, Emelda A. Okiro, Peter M. Atkinson, Robert W. Snow, Andrew J. Tatem, Abdisalan M. Noor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2017
• Subjects: Indicators; Intra-class correlation; Malaria; Precision; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Pillar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-2127-y; https://doaj.org/article/d8be31b30a8b465cb181dbe1e670043c

Abstract Background One pillar to monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is the investment in high quality data to strengthen the scientific basis for decision-making. At present, nationally-representative surveys are the main source of data for establishing a scientific evide...