Electronic monitoring and mapping enables malaria management
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:36
in Earth & Climate
A Geographic Information System (GIS)-driven digital map of past and predicted malaria outbreak hotspots has been used in India as part of a national control program. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics describe the creation of the GIS and its implementation in the malaria-stricken Madhya Pradesh region...