Raise her educational level and you reduce infant mortality, HIV transmission to her children and malnutrition.
Morbidity and mortality, vertical transmission, and histopathological lesions were investigated.
Four traits increased the probability of extinction: smaller group size, higher background mortality, lower transmission rate and more costly traits (although costly traits sometimes reached an equilibrium).
With this model, we systematically varied group size, rates of dispersal among groups, mortality rates, transmission characteristics, the benefit of the cultural trait (including possibly negative benefits), and whether individuals disperse locally or randomly.
The effects of maternal health, infant feeding, completeness of prophylaxis, and birth weight on mortality and transmission were determined using univariate and multivariate analysis.
We present for the first time a stochastic simulation approach to compare likely effects on morbidity, mortality and transmission of a range of malaria vaccines and vaccine combinations in realistic epidemiological and health systems settings.
Morbidity, mortality, and transmission to the mosquito vector are treated as stochastic events with disease incidence related to the simulated parasite densities, and human demography is simulated with an algorithm that maintains the age structure of a typical rural African population.
Global health investment has reduced HIV mortality and transmission.
Malaria morbidity, mortality and transmission can be reduced if prompt diagnosis and adequate treatment is available.
Treatment delay in patients with TB is associated with increased mortality and transmission of disease.
