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COMBINING REMOTELY SENSED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SURFACE WATER USE IN SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA
- Source :
- The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol XLI-B8, Pp 203-208 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Copernicus GmbH, 2016.
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Abstract
- Schistosoma haematobium transmission is influenced by environmental conditions that determine the suitability of the parasite and intermediate host snail habitats, as well as by socioeconomic conditions, access to water and sanitation infrastructure, and human behaviors. Remote sensing is a demonstrated valuable tool to characterize environmental conditions that support schistosomiasis transmission. Socioeconomic and behavioral conditions that propagate repeated domestic and recreational surface water contact are more difficult to quantify at large spatial scales. We present a mixed-methods approach that builds on the remotely sensed ecological variables by exploring water and sanitation related community characteristics as independent risk factors of schistosomiasis transmission.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:Applied optics. Photonics
0301 basic medicine
Sanitation
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
030231 tropical medicine
0211 other engineering and technologies
Schistosomiasis
02 engineering and technology
Human behavior
lcsh:Technology
01 natural sciences
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
law
medicine
Recreation
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Schistosoma haematobium
Hydrology
biology
lcsh:T
business.industry
Environmental resource management
lcsh:TA1501-1820
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
030104 developmental biology
Transmission (mechanics)
Geography
Habitat
lcsh:TA1-2040
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
business
Surface water
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21949034
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8623ac3f92f7156cc97c88262f80557c