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| A M NoorSummaryAffiliation: Kenya Medical Research Institute Country: Kenya Publications
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Modelling distances travelled to government health services in KenyaAbdisalan M Noor
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 11:188-96. 2006..To systematically evaluate descriptive measures of spatial access to medical treatment, as part of the millennium development goals to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria...- Wealth, mother's education and physical access as determinants of retail sector net use in rural KenyaAbdisalan M Noor
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenya Medical Research Institute, PO Box 43640, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Malar J 5:5. 2006..The influence of homestead wealth on use of nets purchased from the retail sector is well documented, however, the competing influence of mother's education and physical access to net providers is less well understood... - Defining equity in physical access to clinical services using geographical information systems as part of malaria planning and monitoring in KenyaA M Noor
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 8:917-26. 2003..The implications of planning and monitoring equitable delivery of clinical services at national and international levels are discussed... - Creating spatially defined databases for equitable health service planning in low-income countries: the example of KenyaA M Noor
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, P O Box 43640, 00100 Nairobi GPO, Kenya
Acta Trop 91:239-51. 2004.... - Predictors of the quality of health worker treatment practices for uncomplicated malaria at government health facilities in KenyaD Zurovac
Médecins Sans Frontières France, P O Box 39719, Nairobi, Kenya
Int J Epidemiol 33:1080-91. 2004..Past studies have shown that HW commonly do not follow guidelines, yet few studies have explored with appropriate methods why such practices occur... - Fever prevalence and management among three rural communities in the North West Zone, SomaliaR M Youssef
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
East Mediterr Health J 16:595-601. 2010..5%) fever cases were managed at a formal health care facility: 7 within 24 hours and 10 within 24-72 hours of onset. None of the fevers were investigated for malaria; they were treated with antibiotics, antipyretics and vitamins... - Use of intermittent presumptive treatment and insecticide treated bed nets by pregnant women in four Kenyan districtsH L Guyatt
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 9:255-61. 2004..Issues of commodity supply and service costs to clients will be the greatest impediments to reaching RBM targets... - The use of mosquito nets and the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in rural South Central SomaliaAbdisalan M Noor
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
PLoS ONE 3:e2081. 2008..Little is known, however, on the effectiveness of ITN in areas of Africa that support low transmission. This hinders the accurate estimation of impact of ITN use on disease burden and its cost-effectiveness in low transmission settings... - Access and barriers to measures targeted to prevent malaria in pregnancy in rural KenyaPriscilla W Gikandi
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 13:208-17. 2008.... - The use of artemether-lumefantrine by febrile children following national implementation of a revised drug policy in KenyaCaroline W Gitonga
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 13:487-94. 2008..To examine access to, timing and use of artemisinin-based combination therapy among rural Kenyan febrile children before and following the introduction of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) as first-line antimalarial drug policy... - The decline in paediatric malaria admissions on the coast of KenyaEmelda A Okiro
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P, O, Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
Malar J 6:151. 2007..There is only limited information on the health impact of expanded coverage of malaria control and preventative strategies in Africa... - Effect of expanded insecticide-treated bednet coverage on child survival in rural Kenya: a longitudinal studyGreg W Fegan
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Lancet 370:1035-9. 2007..ITN coverage has increased rapidly in Kenya from 7% in 2004 to 67% in 2006. We aimed to assess the extent to which this investment has led to improvements in child survival... - Increasing coverage and decreasing inequity in insecticide-treated bed net use among rural Kenyan childrenAbdisalan M Noor
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
PLoS Med 4:e255. 2007..In this study, we present repeat observations of ITN coverage among rural Kenyan homesteads exposed at different times to a range of delivery models, and assess changes in coverage across socioeconomic groups... - Clinical epidemiology of malaria in the highlands of western KenyaSimon I Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Emerg Infect Dis 8:543-8. 2002..The malaria of the region is best described as seasonal and meso-endemic. We discuss the implications for malaria control options in the Kenyan highlands... - The cost of uncomplicated childhood fevers to Kenyan households: implications for reaching international access targetsBruce A Larson
Center for International Health and Development, Boston University, 85 East Concord Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMC Public Health 6:314. 2006..A neglected concern is how communities will access these new medicines promptly and the costs to poor households when they are located in rural areas distant to health services... - Improving imperfect data from health management information systems in Africa using space-time geostatisticsPeter W Gething
School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 3:e271. 2006..Faced with this inadequacy, vital public health decisions often rely on crudely adjusted regional and national estimates of treatment burdens... - Defining and detecting malaria epidemics in the highlands of western KenyaSimon I Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Emerg Infect Dis 8:555-62. 2002..The performance of these methods is discussed and comments made about their appropriateness for the highlands of western Kenya... - Forecasting, warning, and detection of malaria epidemics: a case studySimon I Hay
TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK
Lancet 361:1705-6. 2003..Management of malaria in the highlands, including improved planning for the annual resurgent outbreak, augmented by simple central nationwide early warning, represents a feasible strategy for increasing epidemic preparedness in Kenya... - The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malariaRobert W Snow
Public Health Group, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories PO Box 43640, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Nature 434:214-7. 2005..Without an informed understanding of the cartography of malaria risk, the global extent of clinical disease caused by P. falciparum will continue to be underestimated... - Empirical modelling of government health service use by children with fevers in KenyaPeter W Gething
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, SO17 1BJ, UK
Acta Trop 91:227-37. 2004..Utilization rate was found to exhibit a slight but steady decrease with distance up to 6 km from a facility. The accuracy of the future modelling of unsampled facility catchments can be increased by the incorporation of these trends... - The use of formal and informal curative services in the management of paediatric fevers in four districts in KenyaAbdinasir A Amin
Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Trop Med Int Health 8:1143-52. 2003..To assess the sources, costs, timing and types of treatment for fevers among children under 5 years of age in four ecologically distinct districts of Kenya... - The global distribution and population at risk of malaria: past, present, and futureSimon I Hay
TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Lancet Infect Dis 4:327-36. 2004.... - The limits and intensity of Plasmodium falciparum transmission: implications for malaria control and elimination worldwideCarlos A Guerra
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kenyan Medical Research Institute University of Oxford Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
PLoS Med 5:e38. 2008..This paper aims to define the global geographic distribution of P. falciparum malaria in 2007 and to provide a preliminary description of its transmission intensity within this range... - High resolution population maps for low income nations: combining land cover and census in East AfricaAndrew J Tatem
Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 2:e1298. 2007.... - Information for decision making from imperfect national data: tracking major changes in health care use in Kenya using geostatisticsPeter W Gething
School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
BMC Med 5:37. 2007..Here, we present a new approach that, for the first time, allows national changes in health service use during a time of major health policy change to be tracked reliably using imperfect data from a national HMIS... - Performance of forecasting, warning and detection of malaria epidemics in the highlands of western KenyaSimon Hay
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
Trends Parasitol 19:394-9. 2003..What was conspicuous by its absence was any obvious effort to predict the epidemics in advance of press coverage... - Assembling a global database of malaria parasite prevalence for the Malaria Atlas ProjectCarlos A Guerra
Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Malar J 6:17. 2007..Open source models for outputs of scientific research funded by tax-payers and charities are becoming the norm. This has yet to be extended to malaria epidemiology and control...