Use of prospective hospital surveillance data to define spatiotemporal heterogeneity of malaria risk in coastal Kenya

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bisanzio, Donal ^a,h   Mutuku, Francis ^b   LaBeaud, Angelle D ^c   Mungai, Peter L ^d   Muinde, Jackson ^e   Busaidy, Hajara ^f   Mukoko, Dunstan ^g   King, Charles H ^d   Kitron, Uriel ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA   (Kenya)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Msambweni County Referral Hospital   (Kenya)

^f Ministry of Health Kwale County   (Kenya)

^g MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distribution spatial; Geographic information systems; Geographic mapping; Kenya; Malaria epidemiology; Malaria statistics and numerical data; Public health surveillance; Spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MIXED MODEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAINY SEASON; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HOSPITAL; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949989099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-1006-7     Document Type: Article

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