Geographically weighted regression of land cover determinants of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Table 2 Risk factors of P. falciparum parasitaemia assessed by univariate Poisson regression

Variable	Incidence rate ratio	P-value (Walds test)	95% confidence interval
Ethnic group: Northerners	1.16	0.001	1.06	1.27
Financial situation^¥	0.72	<0.001	0.67	0.78
Mosquito protection^¤	0.78	<0.001	0.72	0.84
Mother education^£	0.72	<0.001	0.67	0.77
Mother occupation^¢	1.55	<0.001	1.45	1.67
SP-arm^μ	0.91	0.003	0.85	0.97
Sickle cell trait (HbAS)	0.97	0.56	0.88	1.07

Categories: ^¥good financial situation, ¤uses bed-net/fly-screen, ^£at least secondary school education, ^¢mother works as a farmer, ^μIPTi with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.

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