An urban-to-rural continuum of malaria risk: new analytic approaches characterize patterns in Malawi

CONCLUSIONS: In addition to increasing predictive power, the new continuous urbanicity metric provided a clearer mechanistic understanding than the dichotomous urban/rural designations. Such designations often ignore urban-like, low-risk pockets within traditionally rural areas, as were found in Malawi, along with rural-like, potentially high-risk environments within urban areas. This method of characterizing urbanicity can be applied to other infectious disease processes in rapidly urbanizing contexts.PMID:34689786 | DOI:10.1186/s12936-021-03950-5

Source: Rural Remote Health - October 25, 2021 Category: Rural Health Authors: Peter S Larson Joseph N S Eisenberg Veronica J Berrocal Don P Mathanga Mark L Wilson Source Type: research