Malaria Journal

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Principal component analysis of socioeconomic factors and their association with malaria in children from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Anne C Krefis1*, Norbert G Schwarz1, Bernard Nkrumah3, Samuel Acquah3, Wibke Loag1, Nimako Sarpong3, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie4, Ulrich Ranft2 and Jürgen May1

Author Affiliations

1 Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany

2 Environmental Health Research Institute (IUF), Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany

3 Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

4 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana

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Malaria Journal 2010, 9:201 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-201

Published: 13 July 2010

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Characteristics of the study group. the table shows the results of a first univariate analysis including variables which give information on personal or family characteristics with a possible influence on malaria and information about factors indicating the family's financial situation.

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