An archetypes approach to malaria intervention impact mapping: a new framework and example application.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As both mechanistic and geospatial malaria modeling methods become more integrated into malaria policy decisions, there is increasing demand for strategies that combine these two methods. This paper introduces a novel archetypes-based methodology for generating high-resolution intervention impact maps based on mechanistic model simulations. An example configuration of the framework is described and explored.

Methods

First, dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques were applied to rasterized geospatial environmental and mosquito covariates to find archetypal malaria transmission patterns. Next, mechanistic models were run on a representative site from each archetype to assess intervention impact. Finally, these mechanistic results were reprojected onto eac

SUBMITTER: Bertozzi-Villa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131392 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature