The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa

Although the control of malaria epidemics has been a priority for the World Health Organization and other agencies for many years, surprisingly little is known about the public health burden of these epidemics. Here, we evaluate the available evidence of the morbidity and mortality impacts of indivi...

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Autores principales: Cox, J, Hay, S, Abeku, T, Checchi, F, Snow, R
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2007
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author Cox, J
Hay, S
Abeku, T
Checchi, F
Snow, R
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description Although the control of malaria epidemics has been a priority for the World Health Organization and other agencies for many years, surprisingly little is known about the public health burden of these epidemics. Here, we evaluate the available evidence of the morbidity and mortality impacts of individual epidemics in Africa and examine the problems associated with using these data to estimate the average annual burden of epidemics at national and continental scales. We argue that conventional approaches that are used to assess the burden of epidemics are inadequate, and outline the future steps that are required to produce estimates that are more accurate.
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spelling oxford-uuid:61a68e09-c4e5-40db-96d9-28403b8509722022-03-26T18:01:27ZThe uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in AfricaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:61a68e09-c4e5-40db-96d9-28403b850972Infectious diseasesAfricaTropical medicineEpidemiologyMalariaEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetElsevier2007Cox, JHay, SAbeku, TChecchi, FSnow, RAlthough the control of malaria epidemics has been a priority for the World Health Organization and other agencies for many years, surprisingly little is known about the public health burden of these epidemics. Here, we evaluate the available evidence of the morbidity and mortality impacts of individual epidemics in Africa and examine the problems associated with using these data to estimate the average annual burden of epidemics at national and continental scales. We argue that conventional approaches that are used to assess the burden of epidemics are inadequate, and outline the future steps that are required to produce estimates that are more accurate.
spellingShingle Infectious diseases
Africa
Tropical medicine
Epidemiology
Malaria
Cox, J
Hay, S
Abeku, T
Checchi, F
Snow, R
The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title_full The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title_fullStr The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title_full_unstemmed The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title_short The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa
title_sort uncertain burden of plasmodium falciparum epidemics in africa
topic Infectious diseases
Africa
Tropical medicine
Epidemiology
Malaria
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