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. 2022 Sep 27:2022:2941013.
doi: 10.1155/2022/2941013. eCollection 2022.

Developing High-Resolution Population and Settlement Data for Impactful Malaria Interventions in Zambia

Olena Borkovska  1 , Derek Pollard  2 , Busiku Hamainza  3 , Emmanuel Kooma  3 , Silvia Renn  4 , Jolynn Schmidt  1 , Hasim Engin  1 , Matthew Heaton  1 , John M Miller  5 , Paul Psychas  6 , Christina Riley  2 , Annie Martin  2 , James Nyirenda  2 , Frazer Bwalya  2 , Anna Winters  2 , Corey Sobel  1
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Developing High-Resolution Population and Settlement Data for Impactful Malaria Interventions in Zambia

Olena Borkovska et al. J Environ Public Health. .

Abstract

Foundational high-resolution geospatial data products for population, settlements, infrastructure, and boundaries may greatly enhance the efficient planning of resource allocation during health sector interventions. To ensure the relevance and sustainability of such products, government partners must be involved from the beginning in their creation, improvement, and/or management, so they can be successfully applied to public health campaigns, such as malaria control and prevention. As an example, Zambia had an ambitious strategy of reaching the entire population with malaria vector control campaigns by late 2020 or early 2021, but they lacked the requisite accurate and up-to-date data on infrastructure and population distribution. To address this gap, the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) program, Akros, and other partners developed maps and planning templates to aid Zambia's National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) in operationalizing its strategy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1
Grid system developed using district boundaries (left) for production of the index study area (center) and nested reference cells (right).
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Figure 2
District map: An example of a map created with the dynamic map template.
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