Climate suitability for stable malaria transmission in Zimbabwe under different climate change scenarios

Climatic Change

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 375-393

  Ebi, Kristie L ^a   Hartman, Jessica ^b   Chan, Nathan ^a   McConnell, John ^c   Schlesinger, Michael ^d   Weyant, John ^e  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b Apartment 4 C ^*  (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SUITABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MALARIA; PLSMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 27744568504     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-6875-2     Document Type: Article

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