School of Nursing, College of Health Science and Referral Hospital,
Axum, Tigray
Ethiopia
Research Article
Pattern and Trend of Malaria Morbidity and Mortality in Tigray Region, Ethiopia from 2011/12-2014/15
Author(s): Hadgu Gerensea and Hafte TeklayHadgu Gerensea and Hafte Teklay
Introduction: Malaria is vector borne disease. Even though there is global step-down in malaria mortality still the African Region still continues to shoulder the heaviest burden: In 2015, this region accounted just about nine in ten malaria cases and deaths world-wide.
Methods: The primary intention of this work was to evaluate four year pattern and trends of malaria morbidity and mortality in Tigray region using backward study system from patients’ enrollment and Health Management Information System (HMIS) data. The data was interred and coded to Epi Info and exported to SPSS version 21 for statistics analysis.
Results: A total of 1.5 million malaria cases were analyzed. 78% of the cases were confirmed though liberator where as 22% of the cases diagnosis were made though clinical manifestation without liberator.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/1948-593X.1000163
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