An urban-to-rural continuum of malaria risk: new analytic approaches characterize patterns in Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The urban-rural designation has been an important risk factor in infectious disease epidemiology. Many studies rely on a politically determined dichotomization of rural versus urban spaces, which fails to capture the complex mosaic of infrastructural, social and environmental factors driving risk. Such evaluation is especially important for Plasmodium transmission and malaria disease. To improve targeting of anti-malarial interventions, a continuous composite measure of urbanicity using spatially-referenced data was developed to evaluate household-level malaria risk from a house-to-house survey of children in Malawi.

Methods

Children from 7564 households from eight districts throughout Malawi were tested for presence of Plasmodium parasites through finger-prick bl

SUBMITTER: Larson PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8543962 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature