Assessing the social vulnerability to malaria in Rwanda

Malaria Journal

Table 6 Correlation between social indicators and malaria incidence

Vulnerability domains	Indicators	R	R²	p value
Susceptibility	Population density
	Number of arriving populations	0.057	0.003	0.052
	Women of child-bearing age	−0.401*	0.161	0.766
	Children under five years of age	−0.437*	0.191	0.028
	Population above 65 years	−0.382*	0.146	0.016
	Population change 2002-2012	0.729**	0.531	0.037
	Average number of persons per bedroom	0.531**	0.282	0.000
	Households affected by drought and famine	0.591**	0.349	0.003
	Number of poor populations	−0.018	0.000	0.494
	Land area used for irrigation	0.611**	0.373	0.927
	HIV prevalence in population of 15–49 years	−0.130	0.017	0.000
	Number of poor populations	0.018	0.000	0.494
Lack of resilience	Number of health facilities	−0.049	0.002	0.796
	Nurse ratio to populations	0.208	0.043	0.796
	Households with bed nets	−0.398*	0.158	0.269
	Low literacy rate	0.136	0.018	0.030
	Households without radio	0.190	0.036	0.473
	Households without mobile phone	−0.174	0.030	0.314
	Poor housing wall materials	0.378*	0.143	0.040
	Poor housing roof materials	0.254	0.065	0.040

The most significant indicators are highlighted in bold. The sin *means that the correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed), and the sign **shows that the correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed). The malaria data used have been collected by Rwandan Ministry of Health at health centre catchment’s area for the year 2010 and then aggregated at district level.

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