Risk factors in clinical malaria mortality among children in Kenya

Abstract

Clinical malaria deaths in Kenya is highest among children and therefore there is need to research on the various covariates infuencing malaria mor- tality among children in order to reduce this complex problem that malaria poses in Kenya and sub saharan Africa at large. The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of clinical malaria fatality predictors among children in Kenya. Secondary data was obtained from government hospitals in Kwale, Homabay, Kericho and Busia districts where we have the highest percentage of regional distribution of malaria in children. The data obtained was from January 1999 to December 2012. The findings from this study indi- cated that there is a linear relationship between malaria mortality in children and predictors malaria admission and rainfall. It was also found that clinical malaria and non-malaria mortalities were signifcantly different from 1999 to 2012.