Map** and anticipating risk is a major issue in the fight against malaria, a disease causing
an estimated one million deaths each year. Approximately half the world's population is at …

Designing effective policies for economic development often entails categorizing
populations by their rural or urban status. Yet there exists no universal definition of what …

A major public health question is whether urbanization will transform malaria from a rural to
an urban disease. However, differences about definitions of urban settings, urban malaria …

Background Despite low endemicity, malaria remains a major health problem in urban areas
where a high proportion of fevers are presumptively treated using anti-malarial drugs. Low …

Background Colombia contributes a significant proportion of malaria cases in the Americas,
which are predominantly rural. However, in the last 8 years~ 10% of the endemic …

Background Bayesian methods have been used to generate country-level and global maps
of malaria prevalence. With increasing availability of detailed malaria surveillance data …

Irrigated urban agriculture (UA), which has helped alleviate poverty and increase food
security in rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa, may inadvertently support malaria vectors …

Historic increase in urban population numbers in the face of shrinking urban economies and
declining social services has meant that a large proportion of the urban population lives in …

Background Malaria epidemics in highland areas of Kenya cause significant morbidity and
mortality. Methods To assess treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria in these areas, a …

The epidemiology of malaria in urban environments is poorly characterized, yet increasingly
problematic. We conducted an unmatched case–control study of risk factors for malarial …