Figure 2.

Conceptual framework. The plausibility analysis framework is based on an increase in coverage of effective malaria control interventions leading to lower malaria morbidity and lower malaria mortality, which in highly endemic settings would result in lowering ACCM.^13–15 The analysis accounts for other contextual factors that may affect malaria morbidity, malaria mortality, or ACCM. See Yé and others¹⁵ for a more detailed explanation of the conceptual framework. Examples of contextual factors are shown, but this is not an exhaustive list. Hb = hemoglobin; ACCM = all-cause childhood mortality.