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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

World Health Organization, WHO, anemia

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Statistics

Abstract

The stated mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) is to improve health around the world. One aspect of this mission involves preparing reliable models to describe patterns of health world wide. WHO has built a summary data file based on nearly 700 published and unpublished reports of anemia rates of women worldwide. Fellingham et. al (1996) prepared a preliminary report of the first model developed from this data as well as the resulting estimates of world wide anemia. The study was based on 448 records from 83 countries. The data included the mean hemoglobin concentration, sample size, a country identifier, the region of the country in which the study was carried out (1-urban, 2-rural, 3-national sample) (area), the pregnancy status of the subject participants (1-pregnant, 2-not pregnant, 3-national sample) (pregnant), the number of calories ingested per capita in the country as a proportion of daily requirement (thus this number often exceeded 100 in industrialized nations) (calories), the percentage of illiterate females in the country (pcillitf), the percentage of females in the country receiving some sort of prenatal care (prenat), the percentage of deliveries occurring in a health care facility (instdel), the percentage of deliveries attended by some sort of health care provider (attdel), the status of malaria transmission in the country (0-none, 1-moderate, 2-severe) (malaria), the amount of money in U.S. dollars expended on health care per capita (dolpcap), and the altitude of the study site (0-sea level, increasing by increments of 0.5 for altitude increases of 500 meters) (altit).

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