Environmental Change and Malaria Risk: Global and Local Implications

ISBN-13: 9781402039270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 139 str.

W. Takken; Willem Takken; Pim Martens

Opis

The workshop Environmental Change and Malaria Risk: Global and Local Implications was held to conclude a 5-year collaborative research project on environmental change and malaria risk, with field research in Kenya and Brazil. It was fitting that such a large group of specialists was able to attend the workshop and contribute with a chapter in which the predicted environmental changes were viewed from different angles. We would like to thank the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) and the National Programme for Research on Climate Change and Air Quality (NOP) for having funded our work so generously. Wageningen UR Frontis is thanked for having arranged the workshop and for its financial contribution. We would especially like to thank Petra van Boetzelaer for having assisted with the logistics of the workshop, and Paulien van Vredendaal for having spent many hours in the type editing of the chapters, making publication of this book possible. The editors, Willem Takken Pim Martens Rob Bogers Wageningen, March 2005 Colour pages Chapter 2. Pim Martens and Chris Thomas; Figures 2 and 3 Figure 2. MARA/ARMA index of climatic suitability for P. falciparum transmission in four consecutive months Figure 3. Number of consecutive months with a MARA/ARMA index of climatic suitability for P. falciparum transmission of p ?0. 9 in each month Colour pages Chapter 5. M. B. Hoshen and A. P."

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Preface and acknowledgments Colour pages 1. Introduction; Willem Takken and Pim Martens (The Netherlands).- 2. Climate change and malaria risk: complexity and scaling; Pim Martens (The Netherlands) and Chris Thomas (UK).- 3. Global environmental change and health: integrating knowledge from natural, socioeconomic and medical sciences; Rik Leemans (The Netherlands).- 4. Application of geographic information systems to the study of the ecology of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases; John E. Gimnig, Allen W. Hightower and William A. Hawley (USA).- 5. A model structure for estimating malaria risk; M.B. Hoshen and A.P.Morse (UK).- 6. Rapid assessment of malaria risk using entomological techniques: taking an epidemiological snapshot; P.F. Billingsley (UK), J.D. Charlwood (Denmark) and B.G.J. Knols (Austria, The Netherlands).- 7. Malaria risk in the highlands of western Kenya: an entomological perspective; C.J.M. Koenraadt (The Netherlands) and A.K. Githeko (Kenya).- 8. Malaria risk scenarios for Kisumu, Kenya: blending qualitative and quantitative information; Michael van Lieshout (The Netherlands).- 9. INDEPTH Network: a viable platform for the assessment omalaria risk in developing countries; Osman Sankoh and Fred Binka (Ghana).- 10. Challenges for dengue control in Brazil: overview of socioeconomic and environmental factors associated with virus circulation; Paulo de Tarso R. Vilarinhos (Brazil).- 11. Effects of environmental change on malaria in the Amazon region of Brazil; Willem Takken (The Netherlands), Paulo de Tarso R. Vilarinhos (Brazil), Petra Schneider (The Netherlands) and Fatima dos Santos (Brazil).- 12. Bluetongue in the Mediterranean: prediction of risk in space and time; B.V. Purse, P.S. Mellor and M. Baylis (UK).- 13. Discussion and epilogue; Pim Martens and Willem Takken (The Netherlands).- List of participants