Spatial analysis of land cover determinants of malaria incidence in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Krefis, Anne Caroline ^a   Schwarz, Norbert Georg ^a   Nkrumah, Bernard ^c   Acquah, Samuel ^c   Loag, Wibke ^a   Oldeland, Jens ^e   Sarpong, Nimako ^c   Adu Sarkodie, Yaw ^d   Ranft, Ulrich ^b   May, Jürgen ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANANA; CACAO; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GHANA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAND USE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; ORANGE (FRUIT); POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SWAMP; VEGETATION; CHILD; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GHANA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALARIA; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79952915543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017905     Document Type: Article

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