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Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey 2016

General Info

Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
Microdata access: Request
Geography 
Ghana (GHA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
October, 2016 - December, 2016
Series or system 
DHS Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2016 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. Malaria Indicator Surveys are designed to provide information on malaria prevalence, use and ownership of insecticide-treated bednets, treatment of malaria, and prevention knowledge and practices. For the 2016 Ghana MIS, 5,150 women ages 15-49 from 5,841 households were successfully interviewed. Blood smear parasitemia and finger prick blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia and malaria in children ages 6-59 months.

Keywords 
Adult mortality, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Community action, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Cooking fuels, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fever, Gestational age, Health care access, Health care use, Health education, Health facilities, Health insurance, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Indoor residual spraying, Infant mortality, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Languages, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Malaria, Marital status, Mass media, Mortality, Multiple births, Nonprofits, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pregnancy, Prescriptions, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Symptoms, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Vision loss, Vomiting, Water supply

Citation

Contributors 
Ghana Statistical Service
Ghana Health Service
ICF International
National Public Health and Reference Laboratory (NHPRL) (Ghana)
National Malaria Control Programme (Ghana)
Funders 
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
Government of Ghana
Publisher 
ICF International
Suggested citation 
Ghana Health Service, Ghana Statistical Service, ICF International, National Malaria Control Programme (Ghana), National Public Health and Reference Laboratory (NHPRL) (Ghana). Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey 2016. Fairfax, United States of America: ICF International.

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