Demography, maternal health and the epidemiology of malaria and other major infectious diseases in the rural department Tsamba-Magotsi, Ngounie Province, in central African Gabon
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- 作者：R. Zoleko Manego ; G. Mombo-Ngoma ; M. Witte ; J. Held ; M. Gmeiner…
- 关键词：Malaria ; Filariasis ; Urinary schistosomiasis ; Pregnancy ; Maternal health ; Gabon ; Tsamba ; Magotsi
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：793KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundSub-Saharan Africa is undergoing an epidemiological transition from a predominance of infectious diseases to non-communicable and lifestyle related conditions. However, the pace of this transition and the pattern of disease epidemiology are uneven between affluent urban and rural poor populations. To address this question for a remote rural region located in the central African rainforest region of Gabon, this study was conducted to assess reasons for health care attendance and to characterize the epidemiology of malaria and other major infectious diseases for the department of Tsamba Magotsi.