From: Analysing the nutrition-disease nexus: the case of malaria
Parameter | Description | Value |
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\(a(\phi _N)\) | Biting rate | |
b | Proportion of bites that produce human infection | \(b/r=0.57\) year [21] |
r | Human clearance rate for each infection | \(b/r=0.57\) year [21] |
\(\alpha \) | Proportion of children to adults | 0.17 [22] |
\(m(\phi _N)\) | Ratio of female mosquitoes to humans | |
c | Proportion of bites that produce mosquito infection | 0.5 [23] |
\(\mu (\phi _N)\) | Mosquito mortality rate | |
k | Susceptibility shape parameter | 0.17 [21] |
\(k_1\) | Undernutrition shape parameter | |
\(\mu _Z, \sigma _Z\) | Normal WAZ parameters | \(-\)1.00, 1.27 [24] |
\(\mu _A, \sigma _A\) | Lognormal food parameters | \(-\)1.56, 0.42 [19] |
\(p_c(\mathcal{E})\) | Proportion of infections that are clinical | (74), Additional file 1: Figure 6 and §2.4 |
d(z) | Malaria mortality per 1000 children |