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Title: Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.66

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Abstract: Human mobility continues to increase in terms of volumes and reach, producing growing global connectivity. This connectivity hampers efforts to eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria through reintroductions of pathogens, and thus accounting for it becomes important in designing global, continental, regional, and national strategies. Recent works have shown that census-derived migration data provides a good proxy for internal connectivity, in terms of relative strengths of movement between administrative units, across temporal scales. To support global malaria eradication strategy efforts, here we describe the construction of an open access archive of estimated internal migration flows in endemic countries built through pooling of census microdata. These connectivity datasets, described here along with the approaches and methods used to create and validate them, are available both through the WorldPop website and the WorldPop Dataverse Repository.

Url: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201666

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Authors: Sorichetta, Alessandro; Bird, Tom J; Ruktanonchai, Nick W; Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Elisabeth; Pezzulo, Carla; Tejedor, Natalia; Waldock, Ian C; Sadler, Jason D; Garcia, Andres J; Sedda, Luigi; Tatem, Andrew J

Periodical (Full): Scientific Data

Issue: 160066

Volume: 3

Pages: 1-16

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Health, Population Data Science, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

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