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SynthesisPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017

Does deforestation promote or inhibit malaria transmission in the Amazon? A systematic literature review and critical appraisal of current evidence.

Joanna M Tucker Lima, Amy Vittor, Sami Rifai, Denis Valle

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Synthesis in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

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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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Ecological change increases malaria risk in the Brazilian Amazon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Landscape and Socioeconomic Factors Determine Malaria Incidence in Tropical Forest Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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  10. Malaria in areas under mining activity in the Amazon: A review.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2024
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  14. Malaria Risk Drivers in the Brazilian Amazon: Land Use-Land Cover Interactions and Biological Diversity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Joanna M Tucker LimaSchool of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, 408 McCarty Hall C, PO Box 110339, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Amy VittorDepartment of Medicine, University of Florida, 408 McCarty Hall C, PO Box 110339, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Sami RifaiSchool of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, 408 McCarty Hall C, PO Box 110339, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Denis ValleSchool of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, 408 McCarty Hall C, PO Box 110339, Gainesville, FL, USA drvalle@ufl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9830-8876

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Considerable interest in the relationship between biodiversity and disease has recently captured the attention of the research community, with important public policy implications. In particular, malaria in the Amazon region is often cited as an example of how forest conservation can improve public health outcomes. However, despite a growing body of literature and an increased understanding of the relationship between malaria and land use / land cover change (LULC) in Amazonia, contradictions have emerged. While some studies report that deforestation increases malaria risk, others claim the opposite. Assessing malaria risk requires examination of dynamic processes among three main components: (i) the environment (i.e. LULC and landscape transformations), (ii) vector biology (e.g. mosquito species distributions, vector activity and life cycle, plasmodium infection rates), and (iii) human populations (e.g. forest-related activity, host susceptibility, movement patterns). In this paper, we conduct a systematic literature review on malaria risk and deforestation in the Amazon focusing on these three components. We explore key features that are likely to generate these contrasting results using the reviewed articles and our own data from Brazil and Peru, and conclude with suggestions for productive avenues in future research.This article is part of the themed issue 'Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications'.

Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesForestsBrazilMalariaMosquito VectorsPeruRiskSouth AmericaAmazonAnophelesenvironmental changeforestsland use / land covermalaria

Identifiers

PMID28438914
PMCPMC5413873

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