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Title
Climate variability and malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/32039 |
Date
2005 |
Author(s)
Hay, Simon I; Shanks, G. Dennis; Stern, David; Randolph, Sarah E; Snow, Robert W; Rogers, David J |
Abstract
Malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa garner significant research attention, due, in part, to their proposed sensitivity to climate change. In a recent article, Zhou et al. claim that increases in climate variance, rather than simple increases in climate mean values, have had an important role in the resurgence of malaria epidemics in the East African highlands since the early 1980s. If proven, this would be an interesting result but we believe that the methods used do not test the hypothesis suggested. |
Subject(s)
Keywords: Africa; Bayes theorem; climate; diagnostic test; drug resistance; health service; human; malaria; population research; short survey; statistics; Africa, Eastern; Animals; Climate; Disease Outbreaks; Humans; Incidence; Malaria; Protozoa |
Publisher
Elsevier |
Type of publication
Journal article |
Source
Trends in Parasitology |
Identifier
1471-4922 |
Repository
Canberra - Australian National University
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