Journal article

Effect of out-of-village working activities on recent malaria exposure in the Peruvian Amazon using parametric g-formula

G Carrasco-Escobar, J Rosado, O Nolasco, MT White, I Mueller, MC Castro, H Rodriguez-Ferruci, D Gamboa, A Llanos-Cuentas, JM Vinetz, T Benmarhnia

Scientific Reports | Published : 2022

Abstract

In the Amazon Region of Peru, occupational activities are important drivers of human mobility and may increase the individual risk of being infected while contributing to increasing malaria community-level transmission. Even though out-of-village working activities and other mobility patterns have been identified as determinants of malaria transmission, no studies have quantified the effect of out-of-village working activities on recent malaria exposure and proposed plausible intervention scenarios. Using two population-based cross-sectional studies in the Loreto Department in Peru, and the parametric g-formula method, we simulated various hypothetical scenarios intervening in out-of-village..

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