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© 1979 Oxford University Press

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Quantity and Variation in Morbidity: THAID-analysis of the Occurrence of Gastroenteritis among Ethiopian Children

LENNART FREIJ1 and STIG WALL2

1Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Göteborg Sweden
2Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Umeĺ Sweden

Freij L [Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Göteborg, Swedenjand Wall S. Quantity and variation in morbidity: THAID-analysis of the occurrence of gastroenteritis among Ethiopian children. International Journal of Epidemiology 1979, 8: 313–325.

Morbidity figures from a one-year longitudinal child health study comprising 749 children in an urban area in Ethiopia are reported. Aggregated morbidity measures, based on frequency distributions according to morbidity level, demonstrate gastroenteritis among infants and young preschool children as a quantitatively important morbidity problem. Variation in the occurrence of gastroenteritis is studied among 390 children under 5 years by means of a multi-variate method, THAID-analysis, designed for a categorical or, as in this study, a categorized criterion variable. The results indicate that variables expressing nutrition, housing, hygiene and sanitation are dominating predictors of childhood diarrhoeal disease.

Received 10 April 1979


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