The association between gold mining and malaria in Guyana: a statistical inference and time-series analysis

Summary: Background: Guyana reported a significant rise in malaria between 2008 and 2014. As there was no evidence of impairment of national malaria control strategies, public health authorities attributed the surge to a temporal increase in gold mining activity in forested regions. However, system...

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Main Authors: Pablo M De Salazar, MD, Horace Cox, MD, Helen Imhoff, MD, Jean S F Alexandre, PhD, Caroline O Buckee, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:The Lancet Planetary Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519621002035