As ITN coverage increases, behavioural adaptation by mosquitoes remains a future possibility.
"The hub and all of the data help substantiate a major call by the Asian AIDS Commission to prioritise interventions on those most-at-risk, and achieve a high level of service coverage and behavioural change to halt the spread of HIV in the most cost-effective way," said Prasada Rao, Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia-Pacific.
"The hub and all of the data help substantiate a major call by the Asian AIDS Commission to prioritize interventions on those most-at-risk, and achieve a high level of service coverage and behavioural change to halt the spread of HIV in the most cost-effective way," said Prasada Rao, Director of UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Asia-Pacific.
We searched 12 databases b, selected for their coverage of the behavioural and social sciences, using combinations of keywords (diabetes, diabetes mellitus, chronic disease, depression, depressive disorder), and individual countries defined as low or middle income.
We wanted to incorporate scope for these behavioural effects to impact coverage within the model.
The age-standardised incidence of cervical cancer was compared across primary care trusts (PCTs) in South East England, taking into account the prevalence of known behavioural risk factors, screening coverage and the deprivation of the area.
From a behavioural perspective, our result that coverage declines steeply with increasing premium contributions at low contribution levels suggests that government subsidies would be an effective mechanism to increase coverage with BHI among informal sector workers.
Behavioural adaptation by mosquitoes to increasing ITN coverage could allow vector mosquitoes to bite outside of peak sleeping hours and undermine efficacy of this key malaria prevention measure.
Dr. Michael Jetter, a behavioural economist at the University of Western Australia, studies media coverage of terrorism.
Due to the high correlation between the behavioural scores of the homophone and rhyme judgement tasks, the effective coverage maps were very similar and hence only the map for the rhyme judgement task is presented.
