TY - JOUR AU - Mbouna, Amelie D. AU - Tompkins, Adrian M. AU - Lenouo, Andre AU - Asare, Ernest O. AU - Yamba, Edmund I. AU - Tchawoua, Clement PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/10 TI - Modelled and observed mean and seasonal relationships between climate, population density and malaria indicators in Cameroon JO - Malaria Journal SP - 359 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - A major health burden in Cameroon is malaria, a disease that is sensitive to climate, environment and socio-economic conditions, but whose precise relationship with these drivers is still uncertain. An improved understanding of the relationship between the disease and its drivers, and the ability to represent these relationships in dynamic disease models, would allow such models to contribute to health mitigation and adaptation planning. This work collects surveys of malaria parasite ratio and entomological inoculation rate and examines their relationship with temperature, rainfall, population density in Cameroon and uses this analysis to evaluate a climate sensitive mathematical model of malaria transmission. SN - 1475-2875 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2991-8 DO - 10.1186/s12936-019-2991-8 ID - Mbouna2019 ER -