Identification of risk factors for malaria control by focused interventions in ranchi district, jharkhand, india

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 276-281

  Saxena, Rekha ^a   Das, M K ^b   Nagpal, B N ^a   Srivastava, Aruna ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev Kumar ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a   Tomar, Arvind Singh ^a   Sinha, A ^c   Vidyotma, Rajkumari ^c   Jeyaseelan, A T ^d   Baraik, Vijay Kumar ^e   Singh, V P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b IDVC Project Field Unit   (India)

^c State Health Department   (India)

^d Jharkhand Space Application Centre   (India)

^e INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

DEM; GIS; Malaria risk factors; Remote sensing; Slope; Stone quarries

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ANNULARIS; ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES FLUVIATILIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREAM (RIVER); ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFECTION CONTROL; MOSQUITO; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENTOMOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84919706274     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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