Toxocara infection in the United States: the relevance of poverty, geography and demography as risk factors, and implications for estimating county prevalence

Peter Congdon () and Patsy Lloyd ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 56, issue 1, 15-24

Abstract: For targeting prevention it is important to assess implications of national survey data for small area prevalence. Using data from NHANES, the study confirms that both individual level risk factors and geographic contextual factors affect chances of Toxocara infection. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2011

Keywords: Toxocara infection; Poverty; Ethnicity; Geographic prevalence; Bayesian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-010-0143-6

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