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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2014

Conservation efforts and malaria in the Brazilian Amazon.

Micah B Hahn, Sarah H Olson, Amy Y Vittor, Christovam Barcellos, Jonathan A Patz, William Pan

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  5. Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Micah B HahnNelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Wildlife Conservation Society-Canada, Nanaimo British Columbia, Canada; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Pathology, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas; Health Information Research Department, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Sarah H Olson
Amy Y Vittor
Christovam Barcellos
Jonathan A Patz
William Pan
Duke University · USFundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRUniversity of Pennsylvania · USWildlife Conservation Society Canada · CA

Funding

Population-environment dynamics influencing malaria risk in the Peruvian AmazonK01HD055415 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PAN, WILLIAM KUANG-YAO · 2008 to 2012
$657k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We respond to Valle and Clark, who assert that "conservation efforts may increase malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon," because the relationship between forest cover and malaria incidence was stronger than the effect of the deforestation rate. We contend that their conclusion is flawed because of limitations in their methodology that we discuss in detail. Most important are the exclusion of one-half the original data without a discussion of selection bias, the lack of model adjustment for either population growth or migration, and the crude classifications of land cover and protected areas that lead to aggregation bias. Of greater significance, we stress the need for caution in the interpretation of data that could have profound effects on regional land use decisions.

Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesHumansMalaria

Identifiers

PMID24277787
PMCPMC3973497
OpenAlexW1994850072

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