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Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLI-B8, 203-208, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-203-2016 © Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. 
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22 Jun 2016
1Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, 200 College Ave, Medford, USA
2Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
3Dept. of Community Health, Tufts University, 574 Boston Avenue, Medford, USA
4Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
5Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Ave, Boston, USA
Keywords: Schistosomiasis Risk, Habitat Suitability Index, Domestic and Recreational Surface Water Use, Ghana 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.
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Citation: Kulinkina, A. V., Walz, Y., Liss, A., Kosinski, K. C., Biritwum, N. K., and Naumova, E. N.: COMBINING REMOTELY SENSED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SURFACE WATER USE IN SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLI-B8, 203-208, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-203-2016, 2016.
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2Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, Germany
3Dept. of Community Health, Tufts University, 574 Boston Avenue, Medford, USA
4Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
5Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Ave, Boston, USA
Keywords: Schistosomiasis Risk, Habitat Suitability Index, Domestic and Recreational Surface Water Use, Ghana 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.
Conference paper (PDF, 1261 KB)
Citation: Kulinkina, A. V., Walz, Y., Liss, A., Kosinski, K. C., Biritwum, N. K., and Naumova, E. N.: COMBINING REMOTELY SENSED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SURFACE WATER USE IN SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLI-B8, 203-208, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B8-203-2016, 2016.
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