Spatial analysis and mapping of malaria risk in Malawi using point-referenced prevalence of infection data

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kazembe, Lawrence N ^a,b   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^b   Holtz, Timothy H ^c   Sharp, Brian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CLIMATE; COMPUTER MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MALAWI; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALAWI; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK;

EID: 33749520449     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-41     Document Type: Article

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