{"doi":"10.7189/jogh.12.04067","title":"Household profiles of neglected tropical disease symptoms among children: A latent class analysis of built-environment features of Tanzanian households using the Demographic and Health Survey","abstract":"Background: While malaria and neglected tropical disease (NTD) morbidity and mortality rates among children <5 years old have decreased through public health efforts in the United Republic of Tanzania, associations between household environments and disease outcomes are relatively unknown. Methods: We conducted latent class analysis (LCA) on 2015-2016 Tanzania Demographic Health Survey data from mothers with children <5 years old (N = 10 233) to identify NTD household risk profiles. The outcome of child NTD was assessed by mothers' reports of recent diarrhoea, cough, treatment for enteric parasites, and fever symptoms. Household-built environment indicators included urban/rural designation, electricity access, water source, cooking fuel, flooring, wall, and roofing materials. External environmental covariates were considered to further differentiate profiles. Results: Five profiles were identified in the sample: rural finished walls households (40.2%) with the lowest NTD risk; rural rudimentary households (20.9%) with intermediate-low NTD risk; finished material households (22.5%) with intermediate NTD risk; urban households (14.4%) with intermediate-high NTD risk and high likelihood of enteric parasites; rural finished roof/walls households (2.1%) with the highest overall NTD risk. Conclusions: This study is among the first to use LCA to examine household environment characteristics to assess child NTD risk in Tanzania. This paper serves as a framework for community-level rapid NTD risk assessment for targeted health promotion interventions.","journal":"Journal of Global Health","year":2022,"id":286668,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9024,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":965986,"name":"Claire Rowan","orcid":"0000-0002-4584-6937","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":918812,"name":"Charlotte J. Talham","orcid":"0000-0003-0354-1024","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":789614,"name":"Kevin Villalobos","orcid":"0000-0002-1872-4416","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":965987,"name":"Dikshit Poudel","orcid":"0000-0002-3963-3441","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":396516,"name":"Janani Rajbhandari‐Thapa","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":965988,"name":"Joel Seme Ambikile","orcid":"0000-0003-2618-4410","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":382854,"name":"Faustine Williams","orcid":"0000-0001-5810-1291","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":382852,"name":"Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino","orcid":"0000-0002-2837-726X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":39,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:29:52.825777Z","pmid":"36057837","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}