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@article{Shah:2022:10.1038/s41598-022-07837-6,
author = {Shah, H and Murray, K and Hamlet, A and Carrasco, LR},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-07837-6},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {Exploring agricultural land-use and childhood malaria associations in sub-Saharan Africa},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07837-6},
volume = {12},
year = {2022}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Agriculture in Africa is rapidly expanding but with this comes potential disbenefits for the environment and human health. Here, we retrospectively assess whether childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa varies across differing agricultural land uses after controlling for socio-economic and environmental confounders. Using a multi-model inference hierarchical modelling framework, we found that rainfed cropland was associated with increased malaria in rural (OR 1.10, CI 1.03 – 1.18) but not urban areas, while irrigated or post flooding cropland was associated with malaria in urban (OR 1.09, CI 1.00 – 1.18) but not rural areas. In contrast, although malaria was associated with complete forest cover (OR 1.35, CI 1.24 – 1.47), the presence of natural vegetation in agricultural lands potentially reduces the odds of malaria depending on rural-urban context. In contrast, no associations with malaria were observed for natural vegetation interspersed with cropland (veg-dominant mosaic). Agricultural expansion through rainfed or irrigated cropland may increase childhood malaria in rural or urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa but retaining some natural vegetation within croplands could help mitigate this risk and provide environmental co-benefits.
AU - Shah,H
AU - Murray,K
AU - Hamlet,A
AU - Carrasco,LR
DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-07837-6
PY - 2022///
SN - 2045-2322
TI - Exploring agricultural land-use and childhood malaria associations in sub-Saharan Africa
T2 - Scientific Reports
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07837-6
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07837-6
VL - 12
ER -
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