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Climate change is likely to profoundly modulate the burden of infectious diseases. However,
attributing health impacts to a changing climate requires being able to associate changes in …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Background Transmission intensity affects almost all aspects of malaria epidemiology and
the impact of malaria on human populations. Maps of transmission intensity are necessary to …

Background Primaquine is a key drug for malaria elimination. In addition to being the only
drug active against the dormant relapsing forms of Plasmodium vivax, primaquine is the sole …

Conventional geostatistical methodology solves the problem of predicting the realized value
of a linear functional of a Gaussian spatial stochastic process S (x) based on observations …

Background Current understanding of the spatial epidemiology and geographical
distribution of Plasmodium vivax is far less developed than that for P. falciparum …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

and chapter 7 focuses on modeling of spatial distribution of diseases. Finally, chapter 8
explains data-driven and knowledge-driven modeling for risk assessment and management …

Background Efficient allocation of resources to intervene against malaria requires a detailed
understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of malaria risk. It is exactly 40 y since …