Studying relationships between environment and malaria incidence in Camopi (French Guiana) through the objective selection of buffer-based landscape characterisations

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Stefani, Aurélia ^a,b   Roux, Emmanuel ^b   Fotsing, Jean Marie ^b   Carme, Bernard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b IRD   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Buffer; Environmental risk factors; Landscape modelling; Malaria; Model selection; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BARE SOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MALARIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK FACTOR; VEGETATION;

FRENCH GUIANA;

DISCOIDAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENT; FRENCH GUIANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENT; FRENCH GUIANA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 83255171096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-65     Document Type: Article

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