ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2021
Model-Based Geostatistical Methods Enable Efficient Design and Analysis of Prevalence Surveys for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Enduring Challenge of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Khartoum State, Sudan.Journal of tropical medicine · 2026Article
- Using Model-Based Geostatistics to Refine Population-Based Estimates of Trachoma Prevalence: Update from a Technical Consultation.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- The estimated incidence of uterine corpus cancers among permanent residents in mainland China using Bayesian spatial modeling.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Using ESPEN data for evidence-based control of neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: A comprehensive model-based geostatistical analysis of soil-transmitted helminths.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Malaria hotspots and risk factors among children under-five years of age across eight West African countries: A geospatial analysis of DHS data.MalariaWorld journal · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness of comparative survey designs for helminth control programs: Post-hoc cost analysis and modelling of the Kenyan national school-based deworming program.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Triple-drug therapy with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine and albendazole for the acceleration of lymphatic filariasis elimination in Kenya: Programmatic implementation and results of the first impact assessment.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
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- The national distribution of lymphatic filariasis cases in Malawi using patient mapping and geostatistical modelling.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Modernizing the design and analysis of prevalence surveys for neglected tropical diseases.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Using model-based geostatistics for assessing the elimination of trachoma.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- A general framework to support cost-efficient survey design choices for the control of soil-transmitted helminths when deploying Kato-Katz thick smear.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Understanding factors responsible for the slow decline of soil-transmitted helminthiasis following seven rounds of annual mass drug administration (2012-2018) among school children in endemic counties of Kenya: A mixed method study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Spatial variation and inequities in antenatal care coverage in Kenya, Uganda and mainland Tanzania using model-based geostatistics: a socioeconomic and geographical accessibility lens.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Geographically regulated designs of incidence surveys can match the precision of classical survey designs whilst requiring smaller sample sizes: the case of snakebite envenoming in Sri Lanka.BMJ global health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Maps of the geographical variation in prevalence play an important role in large-scale programs for the control of neglected tropical diseases. Precontrol mapping is needed to establish the appropriate control intervention in each area of the country in question. Mapping is also needed postintervention to measure the success of control efforts. In the absence of comprehensive disease registries, mapping efforts can be informed by 2 kinds of data: empirical estimates of local prevalence obtained by testing individuals from a sample of communities within the geographical region of interest, and digital images of environmental factors that are predictive of local prevalence. In this article, we focus on the design and analysis of impact surveys, that is, prevalence surveys that are conducted postintervention with the aim of informing decisions on what further intervention, if any, is needed to achieve elimination of the disease as a public health problem. We show that geospatial statistical methods enable prevalence surveys to be designed and analyzed as efficiently as possible so as to make best use of hard-won field data. We use 3 case studies based on data from soil-transmitted helminth impact surveys in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe to compare the predictive performance of model-based geostatistics with methods described in current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. In all 3 cases, we find that model-based geostatistics substantially outperforms the current WHO guidelines, delivering improved precision for reduced field-sampling effort. We argue from experience that similar improvements will hold for prevalence mapping of other neglected tropical diseases.
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