Pere P. Simarro, Giuliano Cecchi, Massimo Paone, José R. Franco, Abdoulaye Diarra, José Arturo Ruiz, Eric M. Fèvre, Fabrice Courtin, Raffaele C. Mattioli, J. Jannin
AbstractBackgroundFollowing World Health Assembly resolutions 50.36 in 1997 and
56.7 in 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) committed itself to supporting
human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)-endemic countries in their efforts to remove
the disease as a public health problem. Mapping the distribution of HAT in time
and space has a pivotal role to play if this objective is to be met. For this
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AbstractBackgroundCancer mortality maps are used by public health officials to
identify areas of excess and to guide surveillance and control activities.
Quality of decision-making thus relies on an accurate quantification of risks
from observed rates which can be very unreliable when computed from sparsely
populated geographical units or recorded for minority populations. This paper
presents a ge... hiện toàn bộ