Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide...
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| author | Tatem, A Smith, D Gething, P Kabaria, C Snow, R Hay, S |
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| description | Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>Plasmodium vivax</em>, and the limitation of the approach were discussed. The relative ranking suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4d048587-d79f-400e-ad9e-d90b7e9fa8f02022-03-26T15:53:00ZRanking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countriesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4d048587-d79f-400e-ad9e-d90b7e9fa8f0Tropical medicineMalariaEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetElsevier2010Tatem, ASmith, DGething, PKabaria, CSnow, RHay, SExperience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955-72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> and <em>Plasmodium vivax</em>, and the limitation of the approach were discussed. The relative ranking suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated. |
| spellingShingle | Tropical medicine Malaria Tatem, A Smith, D Gething, P Kabaria, C Snow, R Hay, S Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title | Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title_full | Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title_fullStr | Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title_short | Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries |
| title_sort | ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria endemic countries |
| topic | Tropical medicine Malaria |
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