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Table 2 Health outcomes and healthy housing status

From: Housing and health outcomes: evidence on child morbidities from six Sub-Saharan African countries

 

Diarrhoea

     
 

Unhealthier

Unhealthy

Healthy

Healthier

Healthiest

p- value

Burkina Faso (2010)

275 (14%)

526 (14%)

477 (15%)

419 (16%)

276 (17%)

0.0228

Cameroon (2011)

722 (32%)

511 (21%)

452 (21%)

265 (16%)

296 (15%)

0.0000

Ghana (2014)

134 (13%)

165 (16%)

127 (11%)

101 (11%)

88 (9%)

0.0000

Kenya (2014)

703 (18%)

682 (17%)

499 (15%)

452 (15%)

504 (13%)

0.0000

Nigeria (2018)

1301 (18%)

1051 (15%)

678 (12%)

552 (10%)

387 (7%)

0.0000

South Africa (2016)

96 (13%)

84 (14%)

65 (10%)

23 (8%)

80 (9%)

0.0001

 

Acute respiratory illness

   

Burkina Faso (2010)

175 (9%)

309 (8%)

309 (10%)

293 (11%)

279 (17%)

0.0000

Cameroon (2011)

813 (37%)

797 (32%)

749 (35%)

599 (36%)

912 (46%)

0.0000

Ghana (2014)

136 (13%)

129 (12%)

143 (13%)

145 (16%)

165 (16%)

0.0293

Kenya (2014)

1372 (35%)

1695 (41%)

1352 (39%)

1108 (36%)

1278(32%)

0.0000

Nigeria (2018)

1151 (16%)

996 (14%)

841 (15%)

768 (14%)

815 (15%)

0.0012

South Africa (2016)

149 (21%)

149 (25%)

196 (30%)

80 (30%)

251 (27%)

0.0008

 

Fever

     

Burkina Faso (2010)

387 (20%)

714 (19%)

688 (22%)

637 (24%)

363 (22%)

0.0000

Cameroon (2011)

701 (31%)

638 (26%)

578 (27%)

410 (25%)

454 (23%)

0.0000

Ghana (2014)

177 (17%)

162 (15%)

151 (13%)

127 (14%)

110 (11%)

0.0010

Kenya (2014)

1020 (26%)

1210 (29%)

869 (25%)

688 (22%)

773 (19%)

0.0000

Nigeria (2018)

2204 (31%)

2007 (28%)

1333 (23%)

1123 (21%)

814 (15%)

0.0000

South Africa (2016)

115 (16%)

121 (20%)

156 (24%)

65 (24%)

202 (21%)

0.0024