Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is registering one of the highest urban population growth
across the world. It is estimated that over 75% of the population in this region will be living in …

Sub‐Saharan Africa suffers by far the greatest malaria burden worldwide and is currently
undergoing a profound demographic change, with a growing proportion of its population …

Background A clear understanding of the effects of housing structure, education, occupation,
income, and wealth on malaria can help to better design socioeconomic interventions to …

Emerging and resurging vector-borne diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality,
especially in the developing world. We focus on how advances in mapping, Geographic …

Background Transmission dynamics, vectorial capacity, and co-infections have substantial
impacts on vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affecting urban and suburban populations …

Our world is rapidly urbanizing. According to the United Nations, between 1990 and 2015,
the percent of the world's population living in urban areas grew from 43% to 54%. Estimates …

Background Approaches in malaria risk mapping continue to advance in scope with the
advent of geostatistical techniques spanning both the spatial and temporal domains. A …

Malaria is one of the biggest contributors to deaths caused by infectious disease. More than
30 countries have planned or started programmes to target malaria elimination, often with …

In this article, we evaluate the impact of positional and temporal inaccuracies on the
mapping and detection of potential outbreaks of dengue fever in Cali, an urban environment …

Climatic factors influence the incidence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria. They
modify the abundance of mosquito populations, the length of the extrinsic parasite cycle in …