Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era.
Malaria has a substantial secondary effect on other causes of mortality. From the 19th century, malaria epidemics in the Andaman Islands' penal colony were initiated by the brackish swamp-breeding malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus and fuelled by the importation of new prisoners. Malaria was a...
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| description | Malaria has a substantial secondary effect on other causes of mortality. From the 19th century, malaria epidemics in the Andaman Islands' penal colony were initiated by the brackish swamp-breeding malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus and fuelled by the importation of new prisoners. Malaria was a major determinant of the highly variable all-cause mortality rate (correlation coefficient r(2)=0.60, n=68, p<0.0001) from 1872 to 1939. Directly attributed malaria mortality based on post-mortem examinations rarely exceeded one-fifth of total mortality. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, dysentery, and diarrhoea, which combined with malaria made up the majority of all-cause mortality, were positively correlated with malaria incidence over several decades. Deaths secondary to malaria (indirect malaria mortality) were at least as great as mortality directly attributed to malaria infections. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a02d0fa9-b48f-4fcc-a2f3-0b022f68806c2022-03-27T02:03:32ZMalaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a02d0fa9-b48f-4fcc-a2f3-0b022f68806cEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Shanks, GHay, SBradley, DMalaria has a substantial secondary effect on other causes of mortality. From the 19th century, malaria epidemics in the Andaman Islands' penal colony were initiated by the brackish swamp-breeding malaria vector Anopheles sundaicus and fuelled by the importation of new prisoners. Malaria was a major determinant of the highly variable all-cause mortality rate (correlation coefficient r(2)=0.60, n=68, p<0.0001) from 1872 to 1939. Directly attributed malaria mortality based on post-mortem examinations rarely exceeded one-fifth of total mortality. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, dysentery, and diarrhoea, which combined with malaria made up the majority of all-cause mortality, were positively correlated with malaria incidence over several decades. Deaths secondary to malaria (indirect malaria mortality) were at least as great as mortality directly attributed to malaria infections. |
| spellingShingle | Shanks, G Hay, S Bradley, D Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title | Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title_full | Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title_fullStr | Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title_short | Malaria's indirect contribution to all-cause mortality in the Andaman Islands during the colonial era. |
| title_sort | malaria s indirect contribution to all cause mortality in the andaman islands during the colonial era |
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