International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |
The Historical Distribution of Main Malaria Foci in Spain as Related to Water Bodies | |
Arturo Sousa1  Leoncio Garc-Barrón2  Mark Vetter3  | |
[1] Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Seville, E-41012 Seville, Spain; E-Mail:;Department of Applied Physics II, University of Seville, E-41012 Seville, Spain; E-Mail:;Faculty of Information Management and Media, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Moltkestr. 30, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany; E-Mail: | |
关键词: malaria; spatial analysis; Spain; water bodies; climate change; wetlands; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); | |
DOI : 10.3390/ijerph110807896 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
The possible connectivity between the spatial distribution of water bodies suitable for vectors of malaria and endemic malaria foci in Southern Europe is still not well known. Spain was one of the last countries in Western Europe to be declared free of malaria by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1964. This study combines, by means of a spatial-temporal analysis, the historical data of patients and deceased with the distribution of water bodies where the disease-transmitting mosquitos proliferate. Therefore, data from historical archives with a Geographic Information System (GIS), using the Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation method, was analyzed with the aim of identifying regional differences in the distribution of malaria in Spain. The reasons, why the risk of transmission is concentrated in specific regions, are related to worse socioeconomic conditions (Extremadura), the presence of another vector (
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