Distance sampling for epidemiology: an interactive tool for estimating under-reporting of cases from clinic data

• Published in: International journal of health geographics Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 16 - 14
• Main Authors: Nelli, Luca, Guelbeogo, Moussa, Ferguson, Heather M., Ouattara, Daouda, Tiono, Alfred, N’Fale, Sagnon, Matthiopoulos, Jason
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 20.04.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Access to health care; Accessibility; Burkina Faso; Catchment areas; Clinics; Communicable diseases; Distance sampling; Epidemiologic Studies; Epidemiology; Estimates; Forecasting; Health care access; Health care facilities; Health Facilities; Health services; Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data; Health surveillance; Hospital facilities; Humans; Incidence; Infections - epidemiology; Infectious diseases; Malaria; Malaria - epidemiology; Mapping; Medical research; Methodology; Methods; Passive surveillance; Plant populations; Probability; Public health; Reporting bias; Rural areas; Rural Population - statistics & numerical data; Rural roads; Sampling; Sampling methods; Spatial data; Surveys; Travel; Travel - statistics & numerical data; Vector-borne diseases; Burkina Faso; Reporting bias; Malaria; Access to health care; Distance sampling; Passive surveillance

Distance sampling methods are widely used in ecology to estimate and map the abundance of animal and plant populations from spatial survey data. The key underlying concept in distance sampling is the detection function, the probability of detecting the occurrence of an event as a function of its dis...