Paper Info
Title
Assessing the Impact of Temperature Change on the Effectiveness of Insecticide-Treated Nets
Abstract
Malaria is a vector-borne illness affecting millions of lives annually and imposes a heavy financial burden felt worldwide. Moreover, there is growing concern that global climate change, in particular, rising temperature, will increase this burden. As such, policy makers are in need of tools capable of informing them about the potential strengths and weaknesses of intervention and control strategies. A previously developed agent-based model of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is extended, one of the primary vectors of malaria, to investigate how changes in temperature influence the dynamics of malaria transmission and the effectiveness of a common malaria intervention: insecticide-treated nets ITNs. Results from the simulations suggest two important findings. Consistent with previous studies, an increase in mosquito abundance as temperature increases is observed. However, the increase in mosquito abundance reduces the effectiveness of ITNs at a given coverage level. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4018/jats.2011070103
IJATS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
malaria transmission,mosquito abundance,agent-based model,temperature influence,Anopheles gambiae mosquito,insecticide-treated nets ITNs,heavy financial burden,Temperature Change,temperature increase,Insecticide-Treated Nets,control strategy,common malaria intervention
Journal
3
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory J. Davis1275.31