Abstract Background The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) has worked to assemble and maintain
a global open-access database of spatial malariometric data for over a decade. This data …

In 2016, undernutrition, as manifested in childhood stunting, wasting, and underweight were
estimated to cause over 1.0 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of disability …

Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child
survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations …

Spatial analysis has become an increasingly used analytic approach to describe and
analyze spatial characteristics of disease burden, but the depth and coverage of its usage …

A portion of the economics literature has long debated about the relative importance of
historical, institutional, geographical, and health determinants of economic growth. In 2001 …

Background Malaria remains a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa and Ghana is not an
exception. Effective malaria transmission control requires evidence-based targeting and …

In the production of gridded population maps, remotely sensed, human settlement datasets
rank among the most important geographical factors to estimate population densities and …

Background Trachoma is the commonest infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Efforts
are being made to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem globally. However, as …

Background Geostatistical analysis of health data is increasingly used to model spatial
variation in malaria prevalence, burden, and other metrics. Traditional inference methods for …

Malaria remains one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in the tropics and subtropics,
and Mozambique is not an exception. To design geographically targeted and effective …