The effects of spatial population dataset choice on estimates of population at risk of disease
Open Access
- 7 February 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Population Health Metrics
- Vol. 9 (1), 4
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-4
Abstract
The spatial modeling of infectious disease distributions and dynamics is increasingly being undertaken for health services planning and disease control monitoring, implementation, and evaluation. Where risks are heterogeneous in space or dependent on person-to-person transmission, spatial data on human population distributions are required to estimate infectious disease risks, burdens, and dynamics. Several different modeled human population distribution datasets are available and widely used, but the disparities among them and the implications for enumerating disease burdens and populations at risk have not been considered systematically. Here, we quantify some of these effects using global estimates of populations at risk (PAR) of P. falciparum malaria as an example.Keywords
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