Accounting for Sampling Weights in the Analysis of Spatial Distributions of Disease Using Health Survey Data, with an Application to Mapping Child Health in Malawi and Mozambique

• Autor(a) principal: Cassy, Sheyla Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Manda, Samuel, Marques, Filipe, Martins, Maria Do Rosário Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/144003
• topic: Bayesian spatial smoothing; child malnutrition, fever and diarrhea; disease mapping; sub-Saharan Africa; survey sampling weights; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Statistics and Probability; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

Funding Information: Acknowledgments: Support from a doctoral Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant (135422 to S.R.C.) is acknowledged. Support from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) (through the project UIDB/00297/2020 (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações) to S.R.C. and F.M.) is acknowledged. Support from the South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC) with funds from the National Treasury in terms of the SAMRC’s competitive Intramural Research Fund (SAMRC-RFA-IFF-02-2016 to S.M.) is acknowledged. We also extend thanks to DHS Measure for allowing us to use the 2015-16 MDHS and 2015 IMASIDA datasets for this study. Funding Information: Funding: This work was partially supported through the project of the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, UID/MAT/00297/2020, financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). The APC was by supported the New University of Lisbon through the PhD program in Statistics and Risk Management of the FCT Nova Faculty. Funding Information: This work was partially supported through the project of the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, UID/MAT/00297/2020, financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). The APC was by supported the New University of Lisbon through the PhD program in Statistics and Risk Management of the FCT Nova Faculty. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.