Identifying Factors Affecting the Incidence of Chronic Diseases in Algeria

Abstract

In this article, we will shed light on chronic diseases which are one of the most common diseases in the world, as a result of the serious complications that result from them, such as motor and visual disability or sometimes even death. This intervention comes to provide a picture of the factors influencing the incidence of chronic diseases in Algeria through the use of a binary logistic regression model in order to extract the most important social, demographic and economic factors influencing the incidence of chronic diseases. In this research, we relied on the database of the Sixth Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (2019).Therefore, The results of the study showed that social and economic factors have an impact on the incidence of chronic diseases, and gender, place of residence, and educational level are considered the most important demographic factors.