Assessing the social vulnerability to malaria in Rwanda

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Malaria vulnerability indicators

Domain	Sub-domains	Indicators	Proxies	Sign	Source	Weights
Susceptibility	Generic susceptibility	Population pressure	Population density in sq km	+	NISR 2012	0.087
		Population pressure	Population change 2002-2012	+	NISR, 2012	0.056
		Population movements	Number of arriving populations	+	EICV3 2011	0.126
		Households size	Average number of persons per bedroom	+	EICV3 2011	0.050
		Livelihoods	Land area used for irrigation	+	EICV3 2011	0.081
		Poverty index	Number of poor populations	+	DHS 2010	0.134
	Biological susceptibility	Pregnancy	Women of child-bearing age	+	NISR 2012	0.110
		Age	Number of children under five years	+	NISR, 2012	0.113
		Age	Number of population above 65 years	-	NISR, 2012	0.060
		HIV	HIV prevalence in adults aged 15-49	+	DHS2010	0.120
		Malnutrition	% of households affected by drought and famines	+	EICV3 2011	0.064
Lack of resilience	Capacity to anticipate mosquito biting exposure	Education level	Low literacy rate	+	DHS, 2010	0.133
		Housing condition	Number of households in poor housing wall materials	+	DHS2010	0.162
		Housing condition	Number of households in poor housing roof materials	+	DHS2010	0.200
		Access to media	Households without radio	+	DHS2010	0.113
		Access to media	Households without mobile phone	+	DHS2010	0.127
		Protection measures	Number of households without bed nets	+	DHS, 2010	0.113
	Capacity to cope/recover	Access to health services	Number of health facilities	-	MoH	0.086
	Capacity to cope/recover	Access to health services	Nurse ratio to population	+	MoH	0.085

The positive sign indicates if the high indicator values increase the vulnerability while the negative sign indicates the high indicator values decrease the vulnerability. Weights were derived for the individual indicators using the principal component analysis. NISR = National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda; EICV = Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey; DHS = Demographic and Health Survey; MoH: Ministry of Health.

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