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Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey 2015

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Kenya (KEN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
07/2015 - 08/2015
Series or system 
DHS Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2015 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. The Kenya MIS 2015 provides information on the knowledge and practice of malaria prevention in Malawi. For the 2015 Kenya MIS, 5,394 women ages 15-49 from 6,481 households were successfully interviewed. Additionally, blood smear parasitemia, and finger/ heal prick blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia, and malaria in children ages 6 months to 14 years.

Keywords 
Adult mortality, Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Child health care, Child mortality, Children, Community health clinics, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Fever, Health behaviors, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Infant mortality, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Malaria, Mass media, Mortality, Multiple births, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Seizures, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Water supply, Complete birth history
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 23, 2023