Influence of human–surface water interactions on the transmission of urinary schistosomiasis in the Lower Densu River basin, Ghana

Joshua Ntajal, Mariele Evers, Thomas Kistemann and Timo Falkenberg

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 288, issue C

Abstract: •Male children have higher exposure to urinary schistosomiasis than females.•Children of 13 years and above have higher odds of urinay schistosomiasis.•Recreational, domestic and occupational water-contacts have higher odds ratios.•More frequent and longer water-contacts contributed to high odds of blood in urine.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113546

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