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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
immunology and microbiology
Spatial modelling and the prediction of Loa loa risk: Decision making under uncertainty
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Volume 101, No. 6, Year 2007
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Health decision-makers working in Africa often need to act for millions of people over large geographical areas on little and uncertain information. Spatial statistical modelling and Bayesian inference have now been used to quantify the uncertainty in the predictions of a regional, environmental risk map for Loa loa (a map that is currently being used as an essential decision tool by the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control). The methodology allows the expression of the probability that, given the data, a particular location does or does not exceed a pre-defined high-risk threshold for which a change in strategy for the delivery of the antihelmintic ivermectin is required. © 2007 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Authors & Co-Authors
Diggle, Peter J.
United Kingdom, Lancaster
Lancaster University
Thomson, Madeleine C.
United States, Palisades
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Christensen, Ole F.
Denmark, Aarhus
Aarhus Universitet
Rowlingson, Barry S.
United Kingdom, Lancaster
Lancaster University
Obsomer, Valérie
United States, Palisades
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Belgium, Antwerpen
Prins Leopold Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Gardon, Jacques
Cameroon, Yaounde
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
France, Montpellier
Ird Centre de Montpellier
Wanji, Samuel
Cameroon, Buea
University of Buea
Takougang, Innocent
Cameroon, Yaounde
Université de Yaoundé I
Enyong, Peter Ayuk I.
Cameroon
Tropical Medicine Research Station
Kamgno, Joseph
Cameroon, Yaounde
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
France, Montpellier
Ird Centre de Montpellier
Remme, Jan Hans F.
Switzerland, Geneva
Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Boussinesq, Michel
Cameroon, Yaounde
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
France, Montpellier
Ird Centre de Montpellier
Molyneux, David Hurst
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 101
Authors: 13
Affiliations: 11
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1179/136485913x13789813917463
ISSN:
00034983
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases