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Record W2467484114 · doi:10.1177/004947550203200306

Mosquito Bed Nets: Implementation in Rural Villages in Zambia and the Effect on Subclinical Parasitaemia and Haemoglobin

2002· article· en· W2467484114 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueTropical Doctor · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMalaria Research and Control
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaRoyal University Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineMalariaChemoprophylaxisSubclinical infectionEnvironmental healthVaccinationBed netsClinical trialTropical medicineMosquito netPublic healthPediatricsImmunologySurgeryVirologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Malaria continues to be an increasing health concern in many endemic areas where it remains a major contributor to childhood morbidity and mortality. Chemoprophylaxis and treatment are increasingly compromised by drug resistance. Vaccination for malaria is not yet available outside clinical trials. In clinical trials bed nets have been shown to be effective in reducing malarial morbidity and mortality. Their efficacy outside of the clinical trial setting has been less well documented. We describe our experience with the introduction of bed nets in a remote rural Zambian village and document the effect on malarial parasitaemia, spleen rates and haemoglobin. Children were evaluated at the end of the rainy seasons in April 1998 and April 1999. Insecticide impregnated nets were made available for purchase to the village in July 1998. Rates of parasitaemia and anaemia were significantly reduced.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.061
Threshold uncertainty score0.401

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it