Spatial Co-Morbidity of Childhood Acute Respiratory Infection, Diarrhoea and Stunting in Nigeria

Olamide Seyi Orunmoluyi, Ezra Gayawan and Samuel Manda
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Olamide Seyi Orunmoluyi: Department of Statistics, Federal University of Technology, Akure 340271, Nigeria
Ezra Gayawan: Department of Statistics, Federal University of Technology, Akure 340271, Nigeria
Samuel Manda: Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: In low- and middle-income countries, children aged below 5 years frequently suffer from disease co-occurrence. This study assessed whether the co-occurrence of acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrhoea and stunting observed at the child level could also be reflected ecologically. We considered disease data on 69,579 children (0–59 months) from the 2008, 2013, and 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys using a hierarchical Bayesian spatial shared component model to separate the state-specific risk of each disease into an underlying disease-overall spatial pattern, common to the three diseases and a disease-specific spatial pattern. We found that ARI and stunting were more concentrated in the north-eastern and southern parts of the country, while diarrhoea was much higher in the northern parts. The disease-general spatial component was greater in the north-eastern and southern parts of the country. Identifying and reducing common risk factors to the three conditions could result in improved child health, particularly in the northeast and south of Nigeria.

Keywords: shared component; Bayesian analysis; acute respiratory infection; Nigeria; diarrhoea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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