Title |
Novel approaches to risk stratification to support malaria elimination: an example from Cambodia
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-13-371 |
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Authors |
Jonathan Cox, Siv Sovannaroth, Lek Dy Soley, Pengby Ngor, Steven Mellor, Arantxa Roca-Feltrer |
Abstract |
Accurate malaria stratification is essential for effective targeting of interventions but represents a particular challenge in pre-elimination settings. In these settings transmission is typically sufficiently low and spatially heterogeneous to warrant a need for estimates of malaria risk at sub-district or village level but is also likely to be sufficiently high to render the type of decision support systems appropriate to the final stages of malaria elimination impractical. In such a scenario it is arguably more feasible to strengthen existing passive malaria surveillance systems so that routinely generated case data can provide an effective basis for stratifying malaria risk. This paper explores the utility of routine malaria surveillance data for the stratification of malaria risk in Cambodia, where the target is malaria elimination by 2025. |
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