Seasonal and spatial variations of malaria transmissions in northwest Ethiopia: Evaluating climate and environmental effects using generalized additive model.

ABSTRACT: The impacts of climate change and environmental predictors on malaria epidemiology remain unclear and not well investigated in the Sub-Sahara African region. This study was aimed to investigate the nonlinear effects of climate and environmental factors on monthly malaria cases in northwest Ethiopia, considering space-time interaction effects. The monthly malaria cases and populations sizes of the 152 districts were obtained from the Amhara public health institute and the central statistical agency of Ethiopia. The climate and environmental data were retrieved from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The data were analyzed using a spatiotemporal generalized additive model. The spatial, temporal, and space-time interaction effects had higher contributions in explaining the sp

SUBMITTER: Nigussie TZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10114238 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature