Malaria epidemics in India: Role of climatic condition and control measures

Baghbanzadeh, Mahdi; Kumar, Dewesh; Yavaşoğlu, Sare İlknur; Manning, Sydney E; Hanafi‐Bojd, Ahmad Ali; Ghasemzadeh, Hassan; Sikder, Ifthekar; Kumar, Dilip; Murmu, Nisha; Haque, Ubydul

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136368

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“…The summer season begins in the month of March and continues till May but the same temperature extends till June. Our study coincides the result of Baghbanzadeh et al [19], who had reported that the malaria epidemics and positive case increased during summer season in India. was increased signi cantly when the temperature was 41.7 o C. There was a sudden reduction in malaria cases in 2012 and recorded declining malaria trend in the subsequent years.…”

Section: Temperature and Malaria Prevalencesupporting

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Malaria en route to elimination in two endemic coastal environments of southern India: an eco-epidemiological analysis from 2004 to 2019

Reegan

Kumar

Justin

et al. 2021

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Background Coastal environment and climatic condition are more suitable in propagation of mosquito vectors, and malaria parasite transmission throughout the year. In the present investigation, malaria prevalence in two endemic coastal localities of India viz., Besant Nagar (Chennai district) and Pamban (Rameshwaram district) were analysed from 2004 to 2019. Methods Malaria surveillance data and entomological data from malaria clinic were used to investigate epidemiological parameters. The annual malaria cases were correlated with highest maximum temperature. Results The analysis showed that the malaria case (P.v. and P.f.) report were directly proportional to the temperature increase. Malaria cases were remarkably increased from 2004 to 2011 and subsequently, both P.v. and P.f. cases were drastically reduced till 2019. P. vivax was higher than P. falciparum and male population was found to be more affected. Mixed infection of P.v. & P.f. was observed only in Besant Nagar site (0.3%). The most affected age group was adult age group (15 years and above) in both Besant Nagar (76.1%) and Pamban (69.5%). Conclusions Improved surveillance, complete treatment and integrated vector control activities showed declining trend of malaria cases in both the coastal sites towards malaria elimination.

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Section: Temperature and Malaria Prevalencesupporting

confidence: 92%

Malaria en route to elimination in two endemic coastal environments of southern India: an eco-epidemiological analysis from 2004 to 2019

Reegan

Kumar

Justin

et al. 2021

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“…Further, the seasonal variations were studied by using the logistic regression model. The results showed that the climate and seasonal change influenced pandemics as summers accelerated the pandemics, while winters had a significant negative effect [ 40 ]. According to Yang et al [ 41 ], after SARS-2003 and MERS-2012, COVID-19 appeared as a new pandemic.…”

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Intention-Based Critical Factors Affecting Willingness to Adopt Novel Coronavirus Prevention in Pakistan: Implications for Future Pandemics

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Akhtar

Jabeen

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Since human beings have a long tradition of coexistence with pandemics, which may profoundly impact them, adopting preventive measures is crucial for humankind’s survival. This study explores the intention-based critical factors affecting the willingness of individuals to adopt pandemic prevention. To this end, a representative sample of 931 Pakistanis filled in an online questionnaire. However, only 828 questionnaires were found to be complete and valid for path modeling analysis. The core findings are as follows: Firstly, peer groups’ beliefs, self-efficacy, perceived risk, pandemic knowledge, ease of pandemic prevention adoption, and risk-averse behavior are revealed as driving forces of the individuals’ willingness to adopt pandemic prevention. Contrastingly, a lack of trust in political will and mythical attitude towards pandemics are uncovered as inhibitors. Nevertheless, moral values depict a neutral role. Secondly, the peer groups’ beliefs are highest ranked, followed by the lack of trust in political will and a mythical attitude towards pandemic prevention. Finally, moral values are determined as the lowest-ranked critical factor. Based on these results, the government should promote awareness campaigns on lethality and fatality of the pandemic at both centralized and decentralized levels to win people’s trust at the grass-roots level and overcome the mythical attitude of individuals at all societal levels. Besides, access to personal protective gears should be made feasible since an easier pandemic prevention adoption would increase the individuals’ willingness to adopt such preventative measures.

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“…The first group of researches focussed on the epidemiology of diseases like Malaria, Dengue, and AIDS ( Bryant-davis et al, 2016 ; Cui et al, 2019 ). The second group of researches was based on surveys and their interpretation through the response rate of certain variables on epidemic prevention ( Baghbanzadeh et al, 2020 ; Sued et al, 2016 ). The third group of the studies was based on the situation analysis of the disease profiles in terms of explaining their prevention and control measures ( Elmahdawy et al, 2017 ; Kiviniemi et al, 2018 ; Raude et al, 2019 ).…”

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Perception-based influence factors of intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention in China

Ahmad

Iram

Jabeen

2020

Environmental Research

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Background The researches investigating the influence factors of epidemic prevention are not only scarce, but also provide a gap in the domain of perception-based influence factors of intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention. Objective This work has attempted to examine the perception-based influence factors of individuals’ intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention in a modified behavioral framework. Theoretical framework A behavioral framework composed of the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior is developed to incorporate some additional perception-based influence factors. Methods A partial least square-based path analysis has been employed to estimate the path coefficients of those factors in terms of drivers, barriers, and neutral factors based on questionnaire data of 302 respondents from six universities and two hospitals in China. Results Among the perception-based influence factors, governments' guidelines on epidemic prevention is found to be the most important and influential factor, which was followed by risk perception. Finally, attitude towards epidemic prevention exhibited the least degree of impact on individuals' intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Moral norms did not show any contribution to individuals’ intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Conclusion Concerning importance ranking, the governments' guidelines on epidemic prevention, risk perception, and epidemic knowledge are revealed as the top three drivers of individuals' intention to adopt epidemic prevention, while the perceived feasibility to adopt epidemic prevention is found to be a barrier. Moreover, moral norms is identified to have an insignificant influence on individuals' intention to adopt epidemic prevention. Given the empirical results, dissemination of Governments’ guidelines on epidemic prevention, proper risk perception, and knowledge about epidemic would help prevent the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak within China and worldwide.

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Malaria epidemics in India: Role of climatic condition and control measures

Cited by 14 publications

References 43 publications

Malaria en route to elimination in two endemic coastal environments of southern India: an eco-epidemiological analysis from 2004 to 2019

Malaria en route to elimination in two endemic coastal environments of southern India: an eco-epidemiological analysis from 2004 to 2019

Intention-Based Critical Factors Affecting Willingness to Adopt Novel Coronavirus Prevention in Pakistan: Implications for Future Pandemics

Perception-based influence factors of intention to adopt COVID-19 epidemic prevention in China

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