- Title
- Review of Importance of Weather and Environmental Variables in Agent-Based Arbovirus Models
- Creator
- Pascoe, Luba, Clemen, Thomas, Bradshaw, Karen L, Nyambo, Devotha G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440300
- Identifier
- vital:73764
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315578"
- Description
- The study sought to review the works of literature on agent-based modeling and the influence of climatic and environmental factors on disease outbreak, transmission, and surveillance. Thus, drawing the influence of environmental variables such as vegetation index, households, mosquito habitats, breeding sites, and climatic variables including precipitation or rainfall, temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity on dengue disease modeling using the agent-based model in an African context and globally was the aim of the study. A search strategy was developed and used to search for relevant articles from four databases, namely, PubMed, Scopus, Research4Life, and Google Scholar. Inclusion criteria were developed, and 20 articles met the criteria and have been included in the review. From the reviewed works of literature, the study observed that climatic and environmental factors may influence the arbovirus disease outbreak, transmission, and surveillance. Thus, there is a call for further research on the area. To benefit from arbovirus modeling, it is crucial to consider the influence of climatic and environmental factors, especially in Africa, where there are limited studies exploring this phenomenon.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (24 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Pascoe L, Clemen T, Bradshaw K, Nyambo D. Review of Importance of Weather and Environmental Variables in Agent-Based Arbovirus Models. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(23):15578, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health volume 19 number 23 p. 15578 2022 1660-4601
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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