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Table 1 Summary of study health districts characteristics in 2013

From: Assessing the effect of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on malaria burden among children under 5 years in Burkina Faso

Background characteristics

SMC health districts (intervention)

Non-SMC health districts (comparison)

Total surface area (km2)

46,785

33,833

Average annual rainfall (mm) (95% CI)

794 (640, 948)

752 (629, 876)

Average monthly temperature (°C) (95% CI)

28.1 (27.7, 28.6)

28.0 (27.6, 28.4)

Total population

2,042,236

2,133,367

Total number of primary health facilities

212

199

Total health staff

1150

2173

Population/health facility ratio

9633

10,720

Population/health care worker ratio

1776

981

Population of children under five

 Total

422,272

382,191

 Proportion

20.7%

17.9%

Population at < 5 km away from the health facility

 Total

808,066

1,363,340

 Proportion

39.6%

63.9%

Insecticide treated nets in 2014a

 Ownership

75.4%

82.2%

 Use

88.0%

87.2%

  1. aWe obtained this information from the Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) conducted in 2014. The MIS was not designed to provide estimates at health districts level. To address this issue, we fitted a Bayesian binomial model to the aggregated data on ITN ownership and use to estimate them at the district level