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Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries

Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries
Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955–72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, and the limitations of the approach were discussed. The relative rankings suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated.
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Tatem, Andrew J.
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Tatem, Andrew J., Smith, David L., Gething, Peter W., Kabaria, Caroline W., Snow, Robert W. and Hay, Simon I. (2010) Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries. The Lancet, 376 (9752), 1579-1591. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61301-3). (PMID:21035838)

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Experience gained from the Global Malaria Eradication Program (1955–72) identified a set of shared technical and operational factors that enabled some countries to successfully eliminate malaria. Spatial data for these factors were assembled for all malaria-endemic countries and combined to provide an objective, relative ranking of countries by technical, operational, and combined elimination feasibility. The analysis was done separately for Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, and the limitations of the approach were discussed. The relative rankings suggested that malaria elimination would be most feasible in countries in the Americas and Asia, and least feasible in countries in central and west Africa. The results differed when feasibility was measured by technical or operational factors, highlighting the different types of challenge faced by each country. The results are not intended to be prescriptive, predictive, or to provide absolute assessments of feasibility, but they do show that spatial information is available to facilitate evidence-based assessments of the relative feasibility of malaria elimination by country that can be rapidly updated.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2010
Published date: 6 November 2010
Organisations: PHEW – P (Population Health), Population, Health & Wellbeing (PHeW)

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Local EPrints ID: 341189
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/341189
ISSN: 0140-6736
PURE UUID: 9d8d165a-9243-4dcb-864f-a0f988afd7d9
ORCID for Andrew J. Tatem: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7270-941X

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Date deposited: 17 Jul 2012 13:10
Last modified: 16 Aug 2024 01:46

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Author: Andrew J. Tatem ORCID iD
Author: David L. Smith
Author: Peter W. Gething
Author: Caroline W. Kabaria
Author: Robert W. Snow
Author: Simon I. Hay

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