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How Many Years of Life Could Be Saved If Malaria Were Eliminated from a Hyperendemic Area of Northern Ghana?
Ayaga A. Bawah
Ayaga A. Bawah
INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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Fred N. Binka
Fred N. Binka
INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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Malaria is endemic in about 90 countries of the world, half of which are in Africa. Little is known about the demographic impact of the disease, however. This article uses demographic methods to examine the impact of mortality from malaria on overall mortality in a hyperendemic rural African setting. Using longitudinal demographic surveillance data from northern Ghana and applying multiple decrement and associated single-decrement life-table methods, we estimate the total number of person-years that would have been saved had malaria been eliminated from the population in 1995, given the age- and cause-specific mortality conditions of the period and gains in life expectancy that are implied. Results suggest that as many as one third of deaths in this population are attributable to malaria, depending on the age group under consideration, and that life expectancy at birth would likely increase by more than six years if malaria were eliminated as a cause of death.
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World Health Organization (WHO), 1993. Implementation of the Global Malaria Control Strategy. Report of a WHO study group on the implementation of the global plan of action for malaria control 1993–2000. Geneva: WHO.
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2
WHO, 1998. Fact sheets. Available at: http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact094.html. Accessed February 2002.
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3
WHO, 2001. WHO Malaria Database. Available at: http://www.wehi.edu.au/MalDB-www/who.html. Accessed February 2002.
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4
Molyneaux L, 1985. The impact of parasitic diseases and their control, with emphasis on malaria and Africa. In Health Policy, Social Policy and Mortality Prospects. Vallin J and A. Lopez A, eds. Liège: Ordina Editions, 13–44.
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5
Breman JG, M.S. Alilio MS, Mills A, 2004. The intolerable burden of malaria: what’s new, what’s needed: a summary. Am J Trop Med Hyg 71 (Suppl 2):1–15.
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6
Roll Back Malaria, WHO and UNICEF, 2005. World Malaria Report 2005. WHO and UNICEF. WHO/HTM/MAL/ 2005.1102. Available at: http://rbm.who.int/wmr2005.
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7
Ministry of Health (Ghana), 1999. Malaria dominates OPD cases. Report from seminar proceedings organized by The World Health Organization, reported by The Independent through Africa News. Available at: http://www.malaria.org. Accessed February 2002.
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8
Gallup JL, Sachs JD, 2001. The economic burden of malaria. Am J Trop Med Hyg. (71 Suppl):85–96.
-
9
WHO, 2000. Economic costs of malaria are many times higher than previously estimated. Press release: African Summit on Roll Back Malaria, Abuja, Nigeria. WHO/28. Available at: http://www.malaria.org. Accessed February 2002.
-
10
Mamoudi A, Sachs JD, 1999. The Changing Distribution of Malaria: A Review. Center for International Development working paper, Harvard University.
-
11
Binka FN, Ngom P, Phillips JP, Kubaje FA, MacLeod BB, 1999. Assessing population dynamics in a rural African society: findings from the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System. J Biosoc Sci 31 :375–391.
-
12
Bawah AA, Wontuo P, Wak G, Hodgson AV, Welaga P, Azongo D, Yeji F, Binka FN, 2004. The Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System: ten years of demographic monitoring levels and trends. Unpublished.
-
13
Greenwood BM, Greenwood AM, Bradley AK, Tulloch S, Hayes R, Oldfield FS, 1987. Deaths in infancy and early childhood in a well-vaccinated rural West African population. Ann Trop Paediatr 7 :91–99.
-
14
Snow RW, Armstrong JR, Forster D, Winstanley MT, Marsh VM, Newton CR, Waruiru C, Mwangi I, Winstanley PA, Marsh K, 1992. Childhood deaths in Africa: uses and limitations of verbal autopsies. Lancet 340 :351–355.
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15
Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trials (VAST) Study Team, 1993. Vitamin A supplementation in northern Ghana: effects on clinical attendance, hospital admissions, and child mortality. Lancet 342 :7–12.
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16
Bawah AA, 2002. Health, well-being and mortality in Africa. Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania. Doctoral dissertation.
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17
Bradley T, 1996. Special Study Module Project Report. Depart of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Leicester, UK. Available at: http://www.msb.le.ac.uk/224/Bradley/History.html.
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18
Keyfitz N, 1985. Applied Mathematical Demography. Springer Texts in Statistics. New York: Springer-Verlag.
-
19
Preston SH, Heuveline P, Guillot M, 2001. Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
-
20
Breman JG, Egan A, Kleusch GT, 2001. The intolerable burden of malaria: a new look at the numbers. Am J Trop Med Hyg 64 :1–2.
-
21
Coale A, Demeny P, 1983. Regional Model Life Tables and Stable Populations. New York: Academy Press.
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22
Arriaga E, 1984. Measuring and explaining the change in life expectancy. Demography 21 :83–96.
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