Open AccessCOMBINING REMOTELY SENSED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS WITH SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SURFACE WATER USE IN SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELLING OF SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN GHANA
Author(s) -
Alexandra V. Kulinkina,
Y. Walz,
A. Liss,
K. C. Kosinski,
N. K. Biritwum,
E. N. Naumova
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1682-1777
pISSN - 1682-1750
DOI - 10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b8-203-2016
Subject(s) - sanitation , socioeconomic status , schistosoma haematobium , schistosomiasis , recreation , transmission (telecommunications) , environmental science , habitat , affect (linguistics) , geography , environmental health , surface water , improved sanitation , ecology , water resource management , environmental engineering , biology , computer science , psychology , helminths , medicine , population , zoology , telecommunications , communication
<i>Schistosoma haematobium</i> transmission is influenced by environmental conditions that determine the suitability of the parasite and intermediate host snail habitats, as well as by socioeconomic conditions, access to water and sanitation infrastructure, and human behaviors. Remote sensing is a demonstrated valuable tool to characterize environmental conditions that support schistosomiasis transmission. Socioeconomic and behavioral conditions that propagate repeated domestic and recreational surface water contact are more difficult to quantify at large spatial scales. We present a mixed-methods approach that builds on the remotely sensed ecological variables by exploring water and sanitation related community characteristics as independent risk factors of schistosomiasis transmission.