The influence of environmental factors on childhood fever during the rainy season in an African city: a multilevel approach in Dakar, Senegal

In this paper, using a randomized sample of 7,300 children from 3,000 households dispatched within 50 neighborhoods, the authors explore the impact of environmental living conditions on urban child health, focusing specifically on vector control factors that could help to limit potential breeding sites and transmission.   

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Dos Santos, Stéphanie
 Rautu, Iulia
 Diop, Mody
 Abdou Illou, MahamanMourtala
 Ndonky, Alphousseyni
 Le Hesran, Jean-Yves
 Lalou, Richard
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Dos Santos, S., I. Rautu, M. Diop, M. Abdou Illou, A. Ndonky, J.-Y. Le Hesran and R. Lalou. 2015. The influence of environmental factors on childhood fever during the rainy season in an African city: a multilevel approach in Dakar, Senegal. Population and Environment 36(4): 429-451.

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2015
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