Environmental and socioeconomic analysis of malaria transmission in the Brazilian Amazon, 2010-2015.
Tiago CanelasCarlos Castillo-SalgadoOswaldo Santos BaqueroHelena RibeiroPublished in: Revista de saude publica (2019)
As a disease of poverty, the reduction in wealth inequalities and, therefore, health inequalities, could reduce the transmission considerably. Besides, environmental risk factors as length of the wet season should be considered in the planning, prevention and control. Municipality-level and fine-scale analysis should be done together to improve the knowledge of the local dynamics of transmission.