Healthcare systems deal with disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis, investigation,
and timely, affordable, and safe treatment. For the delivery of services in the health sector …

Background Use of electronic data collection, management and analysis tools to support
outbreak response is limited, especially in low income countries. This can hamper timely …

Background Geographical accessibility to health facilities remains one of the main barriers
to access care in rural areas of the developing world. Although methods and tools exist to …

Background Reliable measures of disease burden over time are necessary to evaluate the
impact of interventions and assess sub-national trends in the distribution of infection. Three …

Background Given the scarcity of resources in developing countries, malaria treatment
requires new strategies that target specific populations, time periods and geographical …

Context: Using smart mobile devices, called mobile health (mHealth), facilitates providing
health services, speeds up the process, and reduces the costs and complications of direct …

Background Malaria is one of the primary health concerns in Madagascar. Based on the
duration and intensity of transmission, Madagascar is divided into five epidemiological strata …

Background Reliable surveillance systems are essential for identifying disease outbreaks
and allocating resources to ensure universal access to diagnostics and treatment for …

Food is one of the important sectors for human life, because the basic human need is food.
Over time, food prices in Indonesia are often unstable. This of course has a big impact on the …

Malaria transmission is highly heterogeneous through time and space, and mapping of this
heterogeneity is necessary to better understand local dynamics. New targeted policies are …