Use of routinely collected past surveillance data in identifying and mapping high-risk areas in a malaria endemic area of Sri Lanka
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2002
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SEAMEO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Project
Abstract
Stratification of malaria endemic areas on eco-epidemiological criteria is an important step in planning and implementing malaria control programs. The uses of stratification of malaria endemic areas lead to better targeting of control measures such as residual insecticide spraying in countries where unstable malaria transmission occur. In this study, two methods that can be used for stratification of malaria endemic areas in Sri Lanka usingroutinely collected surveillance data over a period of 9 years are described. In the first method, the median Annual Parasite Incidence (API) was used as the criterion to classify an area as at risk for malaria while in the second method, the API and the Falciparum Rate (FR) were used as the criteria. Risk maps were produced by plotting the results of the analyses on maps generated by EPIMAP. The potential uses of risk maps are discussed
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Keywords
Malaria, Malaria-epidemiology, Malaria-etiology, Malaria-prevention and control, Malaria-transmission, Geographic Information Systems, Risk Assessment-methods, Population Surveillance-methods
Citation
The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 2002; 33(4): pp.678-84