Improving socioeconomic status may reduce the burden of malaria in sub Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A Degarege, K Fennie, D Degarege, S Chennupati… - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Background A clear understanding of the effects of housing structure, education, occupation,
income, and wealth on malaria can help to better design socioeconomic interventions to …

Factors contributing to urban malaria transmission in sub‐saharan Africa: A systematic review

PM De Silva, JM Marshall - Journal of tropical medicine, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sub‐Saharan Africa suffers by far the greatest malaria burden worldwide and is currently
undergoing a profound demographic change, with a growing proportion of its population …

Socioeconomic development as an intervention against malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis

LS Tusting, B Willey, H Lucas, J Thompson, HT Kafy… - The Lancet, 2013‏ - thelancet.com
Background Future progress in tackling malaria mortality will probably be hampered by the
development of resistance to drugs and insecticides and by the contraction of aid budgets …

The health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Nouna, Burkina Faso, 1993–2007

A Sié, VR Louis, A Gbangou, O Müller… - Global health …, 2010‏ - Taylor & Francis
The Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) is located in rural
Burkina Faso and has existed since 1992. Currently, it has about 78,000 inhabitants. It is a …

Socioeconomic and environmental factors associated with malaria hotspots in the Nanoro demographic surveillance area, Burkina Faso

T Rouamba, S Nakanabo-Diallo, K Derra, E Rouamba… - BMC public health, 2019‏ - Springer
Background With limited resources and spatio-temporal heterogeneity of malaria in
develo** countries, it is still difficult to assess the real impact of socioeconomic and …

[HTML][HTML] Are malaria risk factors based on gender? A mixed-methods survey in an urban setting in Ghana

V Quaresima, T Agbenyega, B Oppong… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Malaria still represents one of the most debilitating and deadly diseases in the world. It has
been suggested that malaria has different impacts on women and men due to both social …

Conceptualising the effect of access to electricity on health in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review

BR Irwin, K Hoxha, KA Grépin - Global public health, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Access to electricity is an important issue in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
however its health implications are poorly understood. This paper systematically reviews the …

Artificial light and biting flies: the parallel development of attractive light traps and unattractive domestic lights

R Wilson, A Wakefield, N Roberts, G Jones - Parasites & Vectors, 2021‏ - Springer
Light trap** is an important tool for monitoring insect populations. This is especially true
for biting Diptera, where light traps play a crucial role in disease surveillance by tracking the …

Burden of climate change on malaria mortality

S Dasgupta - International journal of hygiene and environmental …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In 2016, an estimated 445,000 deaths and 216 million cases of malaria occurred
worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in …

Artificial lighting as a vector attractant and cause of disease diffusion

A Barghini, BAS de Medeiros - Environmental Health …, 2010‏ - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Traditionally, epidemiologists have considered electrification to be a positive
factor. In fact, electrification and plumbing are typical initiatives that represent the integration …