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. 2021 Dec 29;17(12):5361–5366. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.2013078

Table 3.

Effect of measles prevalence on deaths due to other diseases

  Death rate (# deaths out of 100,000)
Sample: Age 1–4 Measles Diarrhea LRI Malaria Meningitis TB
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Measles prevalence rate
(average of current (t) + lagged 1 (t-1)) (# cases out of 100,000)
0.615*** 0.567*** 0.358*** 0.384*** 0.095*** 0.084***
  (0.012) (0.017) (0.010) (0.017) (0.004) (0.003)
r2 0.686 0.458 0.507 0.292 0.314 0.350
Mean of dependent variable in 1990 304.71 394.815 265.059 326.991 70.642 61.657
Mean of dependent variable in 2019 29.48 97.529 66.331 119.759 18.416 14.205
Sample: Age 5–9            
  Measles Diarrhea LRI Malaria Meningitis TB
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Measles prevalence rate
(average of current (t) + lagged 1 (t-1)) (# cases out of 100,000)
0.554*** 0.145*** 0.072*** 0.104*** 0.066*** 0.057***
  (0.010) (0.007) (0.003) (0.009) (0.003) (0.003)
N 1334 1334 1334 1334 1334 1334
r2 0.717 0.262 0.273 0.093 0.312 0.278