Spatial and temporal patterns of malaria incidence in Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objective of this study is to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of malaria incidence as to determine the means by which climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall and humidity affect its distribution in Maputo province, Mozambique.

Methods

This study presents a model of malaria that evolves in space and time in Maputo province-Mozambique, over a ten years period (1999-2008). The model incorporates malaria cases and their relation to environmental variables. Due to incompleteness of climatic data, a multiple imputation technique is employed. Additionally, the whole province is interpolated through a Gaussian process. This method overcomes the misalignment problem of environmental variables (available at meteorological stations--points) and malaria c

SUBMITTER: Zacarias OP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3161914 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature