Mapping multiple components of malaria risk for improved targeting of elimination interventions

Malaria Journal

Review

Bruno Moonen¹  Thomas P. Eisele²  Justin M. Cohen³  Arnaud Le Menach³  Allan Schapira⁴  Philip A. Eckhoff⁵  David L. Smith⁶  Peter W. Gething⁷  Emilie Pothin⁸ 

[1] Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PO Box 23350, 98102, Seattle, WA, USA;Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal St (2300), 70112, New Orleans, LA, USA;Clinton Health Access Initiative, 383 Dorchester Ave., Suite 400, 02127, Boston, MA, USA;Independent Consultant, Legazpi City, Philippines;Institute for Disease Modeling, Building IV, 3150 139th Ave SE, 98005, Bellevue, WA, USA;Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 Fifth Ave., Suite 600, 98121, Seattle, WA, USA;Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 7LF, Oxford, UK;Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051, Basel, Switzerland;

关键词: Malaria;    Risk mapping;    Operational planning;    Epidemiology;    Health policy;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12936-017-2106-3

 received in 2017-08-24, accepted in 2017-11-02,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

There is a long history of considering the constituent components of malaria risk and the malaria transmission cycle via the use of mathematical models, yet strategic planning in endemic countries tends not to take full advantage of available disease intelligence to tailor interventions. National malaria programmes typically make operational decisions about where to implement vector control and surveillance activities based upon simple categorizations of annual parasite incidence. With technological advances, an enormous opportunity exists to better target specific malaria interventions to the places where they will have greatest impact by mapping and evaluating metrics related to a variety of risk components, each of which describes a different facet of the transmission cycle. Here, these components and their implications for operational decision-making are reviewed. For each component, related mappable malaria metrics are also described which may be measured and evaluated by malaria programmes seeking to better understand the determinants of malaria risk. Implementing tailored programmes based on knowledge of the heterogeneous distribution of the drivers of malaria transmission rather than only consideration of traditional metrics such as case incidence has the potential to result in substantial improvements in decision-making. As programmes improve their ability to prioritize their available tools to the places where evidence suggests they will be most effective, elimination aspirations may become increasingly feasible.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2017