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Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey 2014-2015

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General Info
Provider 
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS)
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Geography 
Uganda (UGA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
12/2014 - 01/2015
Series or system 
DHS Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS)
DHS Program Surveys
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • GPS coordinates (GIS)
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2014-2015 is part of phase 7 of the Demographic and Health Survey series. The survey provides information on the knowledge and practice of malaria prevention in Uganda. For the 2014-2015 Uganda MIS, 5,322 women ages 15-49 from 5,345 households were successfully interviewed. Additionally, blood smear parasitemia and finger prick blood tests were conducted for the presence of anemia, and malaria in children under 5.

Keywords 
Agriculture, Analgesics, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antibiotics, Antimalarials, Assets, Blood tests, Breathing difficulty, Child health care, Children, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Drug consumption, Drug supply, Education, Electricity, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Fever, Health care access, Health care use, Health literacy, Health promotion, Health status, Hemoglobin, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Indoor residual spraying, Infants, Insecticide-treated bednets, Jaundice, Land ownership, Literacy, Live births, Livestock, Malaria, Mass media, Medicines, Multiple births, Pharmacies, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Public health facilities, Refrigeration, Religion, Sanitation, Seizures, Skilled birth attendants, Summary birth history, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Water supply, Complete birth history
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 6, 2023