Studying relationships between environment and malaria incidence in Camopi (French Guiana) through the objective selection of buffer-based landscape characterisations

Studying relationships between environment and malaria incidence in Camopi (French Guiana) through the objective selection of buffer-based landscape characterisations

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Malaria remains a major health problem in French Guiana, with a mean of 3800 cases each year. A previous study in Camopi, an Amerindian village on the Oyapock River, highlighted the major contribution of environmental features to the...

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Main Authors: Stefani Aurélia, Roux Emmanuel, Fotsing Jean-Marie, Carme Bernard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-12-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Subjects:
Malaria
<it>Plasmodium falciparum</it>
<it>Plasmodium vivax</it>
environmental risk factors
landscape modelling
remote sensing
buffer
model selection
Akaike information criterion.
Online Access:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/10/1/65

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