Using NOAA-AVHRR data to model human helminth distributions in planning disease control in Cameroon, West Africa

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-179

  Brooker, Simon ^a   Hay, Simon I ^a   Tchuem Tchuenté, Louis Albert ^a   Ratard, Raoult ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; EDUCATION; HEALTH; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

INFECTIONS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

AVHRR; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; NEMATODE; NOAA SATELLITE; PREDICTION;

CAMEROON;

EID: 0036170619     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. Review of literature on abiotic factors influencing the distribution and life-cycles of Bilharziasis intermediate host snails
2. The distribution of common intestinal nematodes along an altitudinal transect in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
3. Comparisons of schistosome and geohelminth infection prevalence in school-aged children from selected areas of Africa: Implications for rapid assessment and combined control
4. The potential of geographical information systems and remote sensing in the epidemiology and control of human helminth infections
5. Towards an atlas of human helminth infection in sub-Saharan Africa: The use of geographical information systems (GIS)
6. Estimating the number of helminthic infections in the Republic of Cameroon from data on infection prevalence in schoolchildren
7. Predicting the distribution of urinary schistosomiasis in Tanzania using satellite sensor data
8. Tools from ecology to evaluate infection risk models
9. This wormy world - Then and now
10. The epidemiological implications of a multiple-infection approach to the control of human helminth infections
11. The evaluation of potential global morbidity attributable to intestinal nematode infections
12. Ascaris lumbricoides
13. Human schistosomiasis in Cameroon II. Distribution of the snail hosts
14. Earth observation, geographic information systems and Plasmodium falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
15. Deriving meteorological variables across Africa for the study and control of vector-borne disease: A comparison of remote sensing and spatial interpolation of climate
16. Characteristics of maximum-value composite images from AVHRR data
17. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology
18. Mapping and estimating the population at risk from lymphatic filariasis in Africa
19. Geographic information systems and the distribution of Schistosoma mansoni in the Nile Delta
20. Satellite climatology and the environmental risk of Schistosoma mansoni in Ethiopia and east Africa
21. Double-blind placebo-controlled study of concurrent administration of albendazole and praziquantel in schoolchildren with schistosomiasis and geohelminths
22. The cost of large-scale school health programmes which deliver anthelmintics in Ghana and Tanzania
23. Self-diagnosis as a possible basis for treating urinary schistosomiasis: A study of schoolchildren in a rural area of the United Republic of Tanzania
24. Land surface temperature measurements from the split window channels of the NOAA 7 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
25. Human schistosomiasis in Cameroon. I. Distribution of schistosomiasis
26. Ascariasis and trichuriasis in Cameroon
27. Satellites, space, time and the African trypanosomiases
28. Control of schsitosomiasis - A global picture
29. This wormy world
30. Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation
31. Scale-dependent relationships between population and environment in northeastern Thailand
32. "Stupidity or Worms": Do intestinal worms impair mental performance?
33. Spatial scaling in ecology
34. A note on the distribution of Bulinus senegalensis