Modeled Surfaces from the Madagascar 2013 Malaria Indicator Survey. Rockville, Maryland, USA: ICF International; 2014. They appreciated the knowledge and skills acquired during the workshop and planned to use the modelled surfaces as part of programmatic decision-making in the future.Throughout the workshop, participants identified examples of how the modelled maps could be applied in their specific domains of work. You can also search for this author in Malar J. A strong message, therefore, emerges to advocate for reinforcement of this indicator, to allow important questions about variability in behaviour across the island and the impact of NMCP initiatives on behaviour change over time to be answered. Creating spatial interpolation surfaces with DHS data.
In contrast, all target districts were included in the mass ITN distribution during the 6 months preceding the 2016 MIS.Several ITN coverage indicators based on different denominators (households vs. residents) were included in the spatial analyses, each representing different aspects of the programme’s impact (Table Characteristics of ITN coverage and usage at the district level for 2016 (The modelled surfaces revealed that while the reach of the ITNs was quite high, with 52 of 92 target districts predicted to have > 90% of households with at least one bed net, this coverage dropped dramatically when considering the adequacy of ITN availability according to the objective of one ITN per two people by household. Spatio-temporal mapping of Madagascar’s malaria indicator survey results to assess Ihantamalala FA, Herbreteau V, Rakotoarimanana FMJ, Rakotondramanga JM, Cauchemez S, Rahoilijaona B, et al. C’est ainsi que dans son discours officiel, le Ministre de la Santé Publique, Pr Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, a insisté sur la nécessité pour tous de se mobiliser en vue du contrôle de la maladie, car le retard dans la prise en charge du paludisme peut être mortel. Progressive malaria elimination from Madagascar. Calverton, MC, USA: INSTAT, PNLP, IPM and ICF International. 2018;49:87–92.Hay SI, Snow RW. Developing the portfolio of modelled indicator maps and training the workshop participants to critically evaluate and analyse them, increases the capacity of the country’s malaria control stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. PLoS Med. Madagascar has a large youth Figure 1. These included, for example, allowing more precise decision-making in the absence of complete datasets; tailoring intervention responses appropriately during epidemics using regionally-specific indicator information; providing more information in resource-constrained contexts where additional data is difficult to request; and use as advocacy tools when communicating with non-expert audiences or for synthesizing information in grant applications. The workshop culminated in final presentations from each indicator topic team (broadly categorized as: vector, case management, and morbidity) including a programmatic question they wanted to address, the audience for their presentation, an introduction to the problem in Madagascar, the indicators selected for analysis, appropriate maps, and interpretation/recommendations emerging from the modelled surfaces.The field of spatial statistics is continually developing ever more complex and refined models [As previously described, a model-based geostatistics (MBG) approach was found most appropriate for generating standardized spatial outputs from the raw MIS cluster results [These overarching methodological concepts were introduced during the workshop, together with a discussion of exploratory spatial data descriptive statistics (including variograms and histograms plotting the structure of the indicator values) and model validation statistics.
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