The development of Malaria Early Warning Systems for Africa.

Design and Development of Early Warning System for Desertification and Land Degradation

Early warning systems are key components of strategies to reduce risk. This research, by adopting a systematic approach in the management of the risk of desertification and by including previously developed models and systems, offers an integrated efficient structure in terms of early warning for the risk of desertification as a pilot system for semi-arid areas of west Golestan Province in IRAN...

4.3 Providing a Climatological Perspective for Malaria Early Warning Systems in Africa

Development of Malaria Early Warning System (MEWS) using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems

Improved prediction, prevention, and control of epidemics are key technical goals of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership. The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) is a Pan-America and World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Collaborating Centre on early warning systems for malaria and other climate sensitive diseases. To improve epidemic control in climate-sensitive r...

Malaria early warning in Kenya.

Kenya displays large spatiotemporal diversity in its climate and ecology. It follows that malaria transmission will reflect this environmental heterogeneity in both space and time. In this article, we discuss how such heterogeneity, and its epidemiological consequences, should be considered in the development of early warning systems for malaria epidemics.

A review of spatial technologies with applications for malaria transmission modelling and control in Africa.

Spatial technologies, i.e. geographic information systems, remote sensing, and global positioning systems, offer an opportunity for rapid assessment of malaria endemic areas. These technologies coupled with prevalence/incidence data can provide reliable estimates of population at risk, predict disease distributions in areas that lack baseline data and provide guidance for intervention strategie...