Implications for health education and intervention strategies arising from children's caregivers concerns following successful malaria control
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Malaria is still responsible for 10% of the total disease burden in Africa. This study was an empirical investigation addressing the extent to which, and the ways in which, sociocultural, family-based, demographic and economic circumstances in a poor rural African environment influence levels of active malaria infection risk awareness. Face-to-face interviews were conducted and the questions included both open-ended questions allowing for unprompted replies and closed fixed-answer alternative (prompted) items. The adult female responsible for the day-to-day care of the children in 156 homesteads (60 in each of two malaria villages and 36 in a reference village) was interviewed. The families received financial assistance but little physical support from the fathers. Unemployment, poverty, crime and clean water were perceived as the main, unprompted threats, and everyday awareness appeared to exclude the potentially serious disease threats of malaria. Only when malaria was prompted did the concerns rise to 52% and 38% in the sprayed villages. The apparent discrepancy between actual daily and potential future threats significantly increases the difficulty of mobilising communities for preventive action regarding potential threats. The lack of community involvement in an existing community-passive malaria control system may become a problem when promoting new/additional measures to reduce exposure to indoor residual spraying chemicals.
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Within a household, there was substantial evidence that women as the primary carriers of water with prevalence estimates ranging from 61 to 79%.
“Moreover, within a household, there was substantial evidence that women as the primary carriers of water with prevalence estimates ranging from 61 to 79% (Hunter, 2006;Bornman et al., 2012;Holvoet et al., 2016;Geere et al., 2018).”
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Pouramin, P., Nagabhatla, N., & Miletto, M. (2020) · Frontiers in Water · doi:10.3389/frwa.2020.00006 · Cited by 96 · see citing works
“Synthesized Findings Women Are the Primary Water Purveyors, Particularly in the Developing Regions of the World Largely, the identified observational studies (Table 1) emphasized issues in accessing clean water among women and girls, and described that a lack of clean water and water resources negatively contributed t…”
Background
- Authors
- Bornman, M., Schlemmer, L., van der Walt, T., van Dyk, C., & Bouwman, H.
- Affiliations
- North-West University (ZA)
- ORCID
- Bouwman, Hindrik
- Venue
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 408-414
- ISSN
- 0035-9203 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984408454
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Malaria Research and Control
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Keywords
- malaria, malaria control, indoor residual spraying, health education, health interventions, risk awareness, community mobilization, community participation, poverty, unemployment, rural Africa, paternal support
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Child, Child Welfare, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Family Characteristics, Female, Health Education, Health Policy, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Malaria, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Socioeconomic Factors, Caregivers, Africa South of the Sahara
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