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Population-Level Determinants Of Cholera Incidence In African Countries, Ngoy Nsenga
Population-Level Determinants Of Cholera Incidence In African Countries, Ngoy Nsenga
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Cholera remains endemic in Africa, with limited access to safe drinking water and inadequate sanitation as 2 of the main drivers of its dissemination. Few studies have examined the impact of health system capacity, even though it plays an important role in prevention, early detection, and response to a cholera outbreak. Grounded in the ecosocial theory of infectious disease dissemination, this quantitative ecological study explored the effect of social vulnerability (as measured by access to safe drinking water and sanitation, rate of open defecation, poverty, income inequality, gender inequality, and adult literacy) and health system (as measured by health financing …