Estimating the Global Clinical Burden of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in 2007

Abstract

Cartographic approaches to burden estimation provide a globally consistent measure of malaria morbidity of known fidelity, and they represent the only plausible method in those malaria-endemic countries with nonfunctional national surveillance. Unacceptable uncertainty in the clinical burden of malaria in only four countries confounds our ability to evaluate needs and monitor progress toward international targets for malaria control at the global scale. National prevalence surveys in each nation would reduce this uncertainty profoundly. Opportunities for further reducing uncertainty in clinical burden estimates by hybridizing alternative burden estimation procedures are also evaluated.

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MalariaPlasmodium falciparumTransmission (telecommunications)Disease burdenIncidence (geometry)EpidemiologyEnvironmental healthPublic healthGlobal healthGeographyDemographyMedicinePopulationImmunologyPathologyComputer science

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Year: 2010
Type: article
Volume: 7
Issue: 6
Pages: e1000290-e1000290
Citations: 376
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                                    Simon I Hay, 
                                
                                    Emelda A. Okiro, 
                                
                                    Peter W. Gething
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2010). 
                            Estimating the Global Clinical Burden of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in 2007. 
                            PLoS Medicine
                            , 7
                            (6)
                            , e1000290-e1000290.
                            https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000290
                        

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000290