Routine data for malaria morbidity estimation in Africa: challenges and prospects

VA Alegana, EA Okiro, RW Snow - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure
relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an …

Spatial and spatio-temporal methods for mapping malaria risk: a systematic review

JN Odhiambo, C Kalinda, PM Macharia, RW Snow… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
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 …

Identifying malaria transmission foci for elimination using human mobility data

NW Ruktanonchai, P DeLeenheer… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Humans move frequently and tend to carry parasites among areas with endemic malaria
and into areas where local transmission is unsustainable. Human-mediated parasite …

Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence in East Africa: Updating data for malaria stratification

VA Alegana, PM Macharia, S Muchiri… - PLOS global public …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The High Burden High Impact (HBHI) strategy for malaria encourages countries to use
multiple sources of available data to define the sub-national vulnerabilities to malaria risk …

Malaria risk factors in northern Namibia: the importance of occupation, age and mobility in characterizing high-risk populations

JL Smith, D Mumbengegwi, E Haindongo, C Cueto… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In areas of low and unstable transmission, malaria cases occur in populations with lower
access to malaria services and interventions, and in groups with specific malaria risk …

[HTML][HTML] Unmet need for COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Kenya

SK Muchiri, R Muthee, H Kiarie, J Sitienei, A Agweyu… - Vaccine, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has impacted the health and livelihoods of billions of people since it emerged in
2019. Vaccination for COVID-19 is a critical intervention that is being rolled out globally to …

Spatio-temporal modelling of routine health facility data for malaria risk micro-stratification in mainland Tanzania

SG Thawer, M Golumbeanu, S Lazaro, F Chacky… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
As malaria transmission declines, the need to monitor the heterogeneity of malaria risk at
finer scales becomes critical to guide community-based targeted interventions. Although …

Research gaps in routine health information system design barriers to data quality and use in low‐and middle‐income countries: A literature review

M Kumar, D Gotz, T Nutley… - The International journal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the potential impact of health information system (HIS) design barriers on health
data quality and use and, ultimately, health outcomes in low‐and middle‐income countries …

Tropical wetland (TropWet) mapping tool: the automatic detection of open and vegetated waterbodies in Google Earth engine for tropical wetlands

A Hardy, G Oakes, G Ettritch - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Knowledge of the location and extent of surface water and inundated vegetation is vital for a
range of applications including flood risk management, biodiversity monitoring, quantifying …

[HTML][HTML] Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data

S Milusheva - Journal of Development Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative
externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low …