Malaria epidemic early warning and detection in African highlands
| Autor: | Tarekegn A. Abeku, Sake J. de Vlas, Simon I. Hay, Peter Langi, Samuel Ochola, Brian Beard, Jonathan Cox |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Public Health |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Weather monitoring
Meteorological Concepts 030231 tropical medicine Article Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Meteorological Concept SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being Environmental protection Environmental health parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans Uganda 030212 general & internal medicine Protozoal disease Malaria epidemiology Disease surveillance Warning system Incidence medicine.disease Kenya Malaria 3. Good health Infectious Diseases Geography Population Surveillance Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Trends in Parasitology, 20(9), 400-405. Elsevier Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1471-4922 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pt.2004.07.005 |
| Popis: | Malaria epidemics have long been known to recur in the African highlands. Efforts to develop systems of early warning and detection for epidemics are outlined here with special emphasis on the Highland Malaria Project (HIMAL). This project has been conducting research on the operational implementation of a district-based surveillance and epidemic-monitoring system using a network of sentinel sites in four pilot districts of Kenya and Uganda. The potential use of weather monitoring as well as disease surveillance for effective early warning is being investigated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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