Paediatric admissions data from hospitals in Malawi's Mchinji district, covering care-seeking behavior prior to admission. The dataset was created by Helena Hildenwall and covers the period from September 2019 to April 2020.
Use Cases
- Analyze temporal trends in paediatric admissions from September 2019 to April 2020.
- Study care-seeking behavior preceding hospital admission for paediatric patients.
- Investigate district-level patterns in paediatric hospitalizations in Mchinji.
Strengths
- Data covers a defined 8-month period from September 2019 to April 2020.
- Focuses on a specific demographic (paediatric patients) and geographic area (Mchinji district).
Limitations
- Unknown sample size (row count) and specific variables (columns).
- Limited temporal coverage of 8 months may not capture seasonal or long-term trends.
- Geographic scope is restricted to a single district in Malawi.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse, authored by Helena Hildenwall.
- Collection Method
- Hospital admission records from Mchinji district.
- Time Range
- September 2019 to April 2020.
- Freshness
- Metadata was last updated on 2026-04-04, but the underlying data's temporal coverage ended in April 2020.
- Geography
- Mchinji district, Malawi.