A method for estimating the deforestation timeline in rural settlements in a scenario of malaria transmission in frontier expansion in the Amazon Region
Document title: A method for estimating the deforestation timeline in rural settlements in a scenario of malaria transmission in frontier expansion in the Amazon Region
Journal: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000420042
ISSN: 0074-0276
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Setor de Pos-Graduacao, Pesquisa e Inovacao, Santo Andre, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Saude Publica, Sao Paulo. Brasil
3Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo, Superintendencia de Controle de Endemias, Araraquara, Sao Paulo. Brasil
4New York State Department of Health, The Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York. Estados Unidos de América
Year:
Volumen: 113
Number: 9
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract The Malaria Frontier Hypothesis (MFH) is the current model for predicting malaria emergence in the Brazilian Amazon. It has two important dimensions, ‘settlement time’ and ‘malaria incidence’, and its prediction are: malaria incidence peaks five years after the initiation of human settlement and declines towards zero after an estimated 10 years. Although MFH is currently accepted, it has been challenged recently. Herein, we described a novel method for estimating settlement timeline by using remote sensing technology integrated in an open-software geographic information system. Surprisingly, we found that of the majority of the rural settlements with high malaria incidence are more than 10 years old
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Salud pública,
Paludismo,
Vigilancia sanitaria,
Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG),
Percepción remota,
Epidemiología
Keyword: Public health,
Malaria,
Sanitary surveillance,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Remote sensing,
Epidemiology
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