Climate change and variability affect virtually everyone and every region of the world but the
effects are nowhere more prominent than in mountain regions and people living therein. The …

Community-acquired acute kidney injury (AKI) in develo** tropical countries is markedly
different from AKI in developed countries with a temperate climate, which exemplifies the …

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the
develo** world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which …

The interactions of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological
factors in sha** mosquito-borne disease transmission dynamics are complex and …

Background The relative roles of climate variability and population related effects in malaria
transmission could be better understood if regional-scale dynamical malaria models could …

Background The relationship between climatic factors and mosquito abundance is very
important to determine parasite activity levels and, therefore, disease risk. Therefore, this …

Abstract Background Although Plasmodium falciparum transmission frequently exhibits
seasonal patterns, the drivers of malaria seasonality are often unclear. Given the massive …

Background: Time series analysis is suitable for investigations of relatively direct and short-
term effects of exposures on outcomes. In environmental epidemiology studies, this method …

In tropical and subtropical regions of eastern and South-eastern Asia, dengue fever (DF)
and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) outbreaks occur frequently. Previous studies indicate …

Background Over the last decade, the incidence of confirmed malaria has declined
significantly in Nepal. The aim of this paper is to assess the spatio-temporal distribution of …