Publications by authors named "Mastewal Lake"
Background: Despite global intervention efforts, malaria remains a major public health concern in many parts of the world. Understanding geographic variation in malaria patterns and their environmental determinants can support targeting of malaria control and development of elimination strategies.
Methods: We used remotely sensed environmental data to analyze the influences of environmental risk factors on malaria cases caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax from 2014 to 2017 in two geographic settings in Ethiopia.
Background: Despite remarkable progress in the reduction of malaria incidence, this disease remains a public health threat to a significant portion of the world's population. Surveillance, combined with early detection algorithms, can be an effective intervention strategy to inform timely public health responses to potential outbreaks. Our main objective was to compare the potential for detecting malaria outbreaks by selected event detection methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the importance of external quality assessment program on malaria microscopic diagnosis.
Results: A total of 3148 slides were collected in 4 consecutive external quality assessment rounds and blindly rechecked at Amhara Public Health Institute. The average agreement between health facility and APHI slide readers was 96.
Article Synopsis
- Early detection of malaria epidemics is crucial for implementing preventive measures, but challenges include gathering timely data, modeling for early warning, and effective communication with public health officials.
- The EPIDEMIA system was developed in Ethiopia to merge disease surveillance with environmental monitoring to enhance malaria forecast accuracy through input from public health and technical experts.
- The system automates the integration of weekly epidemiological data and environmental information, providing user-friendly interfaces and generating reports to visualize and analyze emerging malaria risks and indicators.