Dataset
To identify social, economic and public health consequences of typhoid and design context specific prevention strategies.
The social, economic, and public health consequences of this disease disproportionately affect people in Africa and Asia. In order to design context-specific prevention strategies, there is a need to holistically characterise outbreaks in these settings.
Variables reported include gender, month and year of diagnosis, hospital id, no of cases per region, level of education, household members, household water source, household drinking water treatment method, designated cup kept, beliefs about drinking water, handwashing before drinking water, soap use in handwashing, type of water source, toilet paper use, water and children waste handling.
Aggregated data from Ministry of Health surveillance database, Health records of Typhoid fever patients, and database from the Case-Control study.