Table A.6.
Population attributable fraction (PAF) estimates (%) for malaria, Moderate/severe anaemia, Moderate/severe malnutrition, diarrhoea and ARI at the national and regional scale relative to under-five mortality.
| Geographical scale | Malaria |
Moderate/severe anaemia |
Moderate/severe malnutrition |
Diarrhoea |
ARIs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAF (95% CI) | PAF (95% CI) | PAF (95% CI) | PAF (95% CI) | PAF (95% CI) | |
| National | 96.9 (94.6,98.0)a | 90.9 (84.4,95.3)a | 89.3 (76.0,93.8)a | 93.3 (87.7,96.0)a | −17.6 (−29.6,40.7) |
| Regions | |||||
| Central 1 | 94.7 (−92.2109.3) | 95.9 (91.3,98.8)a | 92.1 (−87.8112.0) | 85.6 (−114.0,97.6) | 15.3 (−97.7115.9) |
| Central 2 | 97.3 (83.6,98.8)a | 69.1 (−50.6,94.3) | −81.8 (−126.2,67.1) | 95.3 (77.1,98.2)a | 59.0 (−96.6111.5) |
| East-central | 98.7 (95.8,99.6)a | 111.5 (−106.1129.4) | 51.0 (43.8,78.5)a | 96.8 (87.0,99.1)a | 75.9 (−97.8108.5) |
| Kampala | 50.0 (−190,82.9) | 95.2 (88.4,97.4)a | 97.5 (−85.9151.0) | 62.7 (−98.2107.5) | 88.1 (−98.9109.4) |
| Mid-Eastern | 98.9 (−98.3115.6) | −177.8 (−189.0,115.0) | 86.9 (77.9,94.1)a | 97.2 (89.9,98.8)a | 134.4 (−98.2157.0,) |
| Mid-North | 98.3 (94.4,99.3)a | 78.4 (43.8,92.7)a | 94.6 (−75.2116.6) | 94.7 (−98.6118.2) | 18.0 (−97.8105.6) |
| Mid-Western | 75.1 (−68.1107.8) | 71.9 (52.8,91.1)a | 149.0 (−95.9171.4) | 95.7 (67.6,98.3)a | 288.7 (−97.6308.0) |
| North-East | 98.0 (92.5,99.3)a | 87.5 (73.7,97.7)a | 92.5 (83.7,98.6)a | 96.5 (−98.9133.3) | 200.0 (−98.9216.7) |
| South-West | 208.7 (−125.5260.6) | 86.0 (76.2,93.0)a | 98.4 (−93.2125.0) | 87.9 (−121.1,98.1) | 77.3 (−97.5113.2) |
| West Nile | 98.2 (73.4,98.9)a | 97.1 (95.7,98.2)a | 84.4 (−64.8136.8) | 91.1 (−97.5135.7) | 21.9 (−97.7108.6) |
ARIs: Symptoms of acute respiratory infections.
a
Percentage of deaths attributable to a disease, for example, for malaria, 97% (PAF = 96.9; 95%BCI: 94.6, 98.0) of deaths among children less than five years in Uganda are attributed to malaria.