Spatial Infectious Disease Epidemiology
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 5301
Special Issue Editor
2. Geospital and Tuberculosis (GeoTB) Team, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth 6009, Australia
Interests: spatial epidemiology; infectious diseases; emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; tuberculosis
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Dear Colleagues,
Knowledge of the geographical distribution of infectious diseases and factors that determine where and when these infectious diseases occur is crucial for policymakers to implement targeted interventions at local and sub-national levels. This might be particularly important in resource-constrained settings and high infectious diseases burden countries. Spatial analyses are useful methods for explaining and predicting patterns of infectious diseases across geographical space and identifying areas of potentially high risk.
Spatial infectious disease epidemiology is an emerging field in epidemiology that includes a variety of analytical approaches to investigate the spatial distribution of infectious diseases, such as bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases, and their demographic, environmental, climatic, behavioural and socioeconomic risk factors. Although spatial epidemiology has a long history of use in public health, it is only recently that spatial analysis has become widely available because of the development of new technologies and the availability of geographical information systems.
The Special Issue “Spatial Infectious Disease Epidemiology” welcomes high-quality original research and review articles in the broad subject area of spatial or spatiotemporal analysis/modelling of bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, dengue, cholera, measles, schistosomiasis, leptospirosis, influenza, chikungunya, Zika, Ebola, MERS-CoV, SARS, COVID -19, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, soil-transmitted helminths, neglected tropical diseases, sexually transmitted diseases and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. We are particularly interested in papers focusing on geospatial analyses of data, models explaining spatial or spatiotemporal patterns of infectious diseases and analyses that incorporate a spatial component within the model.
Dr. Kefyalew Addis Alene
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spatial epidemiology
- spatial analysis
- geospatial analysis
- spatiotemporal model
- spatial information in health
- disease mapping
- infectious diseases
- tuberculosis
- HIV
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Cholera
- measles
- Leptospirosis
- influenza
- Chikungunya
- Zika
- Ebola
- MERS-CoV
- SARS
- COVID-19
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- soil-transmitted helminths
- neglected tropical diseases
- sexually transmitted diseases
- emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
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