Today, tomorrow, forever
| dc.contributor.author | Kazembe, Lawrence N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Neema, Isak | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-14T13:45:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-14T13:45:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of febrile conditions is a key strategy towards control of the disease from progressing to severe or fatal stages. In this paper, we studied the timing of treatment among children with a history of diarrhoea and fever in Namibia, while simultaneously investigated socio-economic and spatial factors that influence the treatment seeking behaviour. A multinomial probit model with ordered categories was estimated, and results confirmed that there was significant spatial variation at regional level. Socio-economic factors also explain treatment seeking having controlled for spatial dependence. The spatial variation can be interpreted as representing unobserved heterogeneity not captured by the data or possible clustering inherent in nested survey data. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kazembe, L. N., and Neema, I. 2013. Today, tomorrow, forever: A Bayesian ordered categories model for treatment seeking in febrile children. International Science and Technology Journal of Namibia 1(1-2):21-34. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2026-7673 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11070/815 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Namibia | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | International Science and Technology Journal of Namibia;1-2 | |
| dc.subject | Febrile conditions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Namibia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bayesian | en_US |
| dc.subject | Treatment seeking behaviour | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ordered cate categorical models | en_US |
| dc.title | Today, tomorrow, forever | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |