Long-Run Relative Importance of Temperature as the Main Driver to Malaria Transmission in Limpopo Province, South Africa: A Simple Econometric Approach

EcoHealth

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 131-143

  Komen, Kibii ^a   Olwoch, Jane ^b   Rautenbach, Hannes ^a   Botai, Joel ^a   Adebayo, Adetunji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ARDL Model; causality; climate change; Limpopo Province; malaria; spatio temporal

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE; HUMAN; MALARIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION;

CLIMATE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RAIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84928721903     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-014-0992-1     Document Type: Article

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