.png "Philippines Children with fever receiving antimalarial drugs (% of children under age 5 with fever)")
| Data: | Children with fever receiving antimalarial drugs (% of children under age 5 with fever) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SH.MLR.TRET.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Disease prevention | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Malaria treatment refers to the percentage of children under age five who were ill with fever in the last two weeks and received any appropriate (locally defined) anti-malarial drugs. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | 0 | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys by ICF International. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Malaria is endemic to the poorest countries in the world, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Prompt and effective treatment of malaria is a critical element of malaria control. It is vital that sufferers, especially children under age 5, start treatment within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms, to prevent progression - often rapid - to severe malaria and death. Data on malaria are from national-level surveys, including Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys, and Malaria Indicator Surveys. | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | 0 | ||||||||
