Malaria control under unstable dynamics: Reactive vs. climate-based strategies

Acta Tropica

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-51

  Baeza, Andres ^a   Bouma, Menno J ^b   Dhiman, Ramesh ^c   Pascual, Mercedes ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual parasite Incidence (API); Arid environments; Indoor residual spray (IRS), Rainfall variability; Low transmission environment; Malaria control; Malaria elimination; Malaria epidemics; Malaria transmission; Plasmodium falciparum malaria; Seasonal transmission; Unstable malaria dynamics

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; MALARIA; POLICY APPROACH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIDEMIC; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RISK REDUCTION; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS;

INDIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANNUAL PARASITE INCIDENCE (API); ARID ENVIRONMENTS; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAY (IRS), RAINFALL VARIABILITY; LOW TRANSMISSION ENVIRONMENT; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA ELIMINATION; MALARIA EPIDEMICS; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA; SEASONAL TRANSMISSION; UNSTABLE MALARIA DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84888204742     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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