Estimation of malaria incidence in northern Namibia in 2009 using Bayesian conditional-autoregressive spatial-temporal models

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-36

  Alegana, Victor A ^a,b   Atkinson, Peter M ^b   Wright, Jim A ^b   Kamwi, Richard ^c   Uusiku, Petrina ^c   Katokele, Stark ^c   Snow, Robert W ^a,d   Noor, Abdisalan M ^a,d  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Health and Social Services   (Namibia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive; Malaria; Namibia; Spatio temporal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAMIBIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZAMBIA;

ACD; ACTIVE CASE DETECTION; CAR; CONDITIONAL AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CONDITIONAL PREDICTIVE ORDINATE; CONDITIONAL-AUTOREGRESSIVE; CPO; DEVIANCE INFORMATION CRITERION; DIC; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM RESEARCH INSTITUTE; ESRI; EVI; GAUSSIAN FIELD; GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GF; GIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GLOBAL RURAL AND URBAN MAPPING PROJECT; GMRF; GPS; GRUMP; HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM; HMIS; INLA; INTEGRATED NESTED LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY; JAXA; MALARIA; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MAUP; MCMC; MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES; MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRO-RADIOMETER; MODIFIABLE AREAL UNIT PROBLEM; MODIS; MOHSS; NAMIBIA; NASA; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; NATIONAL VECTOR-BORNE AND DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAMME; NVBDCP; PASSIVE CASE DETECTION; PCD; PHS; PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; RDT; SERVICE PROVISION ASSESSMENTS; SPA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TEMPERATURE SUITABILITY INDEX; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION; TSI; WHO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION; ZERO-INFLATED POISSON; ZIP;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAMIBIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884733132     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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