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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1466610

Spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal cluster detection of malaria incidence in

Provisionally accepted
Lidetu Demoze Lidetu Demoze 1*Lidetu Demoze Lidetu Demoze 2Eyob Akalewold Eyob Akalewold 2Helen Brhan Helen Brhan 2Tigist Kifle Tigist Kifle 2Gelila Yitageasu Gelila Yitageasu 1
  • 1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
  • 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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    Background: Malaria is a major global health hazard particularly dangerous in developing nations like Ethiopia where it causes high rates of illness as well as mortality. According to the reports of the South Omo zoneZone health bureau despite different interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying the incidence of malaria has shown increment in recent years. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal variation of malaria incidence in the South Omo zoneZone, Southwest Ethiopia.Health Information Software (DHIS) four-year population malaria report. The incidence rate of malaria per 1,000 people populations was calculated using Microsoft excel software. The Kulldorff SaTScan software with a discrete Poisson model was used to identify statistically significant spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal malaria clusters. ArcGIS 10.7 software was used to plot the graduated colour map.Results: Spatial clusters were detected in Dasenech (RLLR= 2.0637995.52, p< 0.0001), Hamer

    Keywords: Malaria, Incidence, spatial, Temporal, spatiotemporal, Cluster, South Omo Zone

    Received: 18 Jul 2024; Accepted: 16 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Demoze, Demoze, Akalewold, Brhan, Kifle and Yitageasu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Lidetu Demoze, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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