GIS Assisted Multicriteria Analysis of Malaria Spatial Distribution

Malaria is still among the top killing disease in Ethiopia, in general, and the study area in particular. This study was initiated with the central aim of mapping out malaria hazard and risk area within the district. So GIS is the best tool to map out by considering different parameters together.To produce a malaria hazard map; altitude, rainfall, temperature, river proximity, slope, and soil type were used while the distance from health service, land use type, and population density are the four parameters used to produce risk mapping. Meteorological data were collected from 13 meteorological stations.The last five-year malaria patients report showed that there is a dramatic increase of malaria patients in the study area which is different from the national annual report.

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Demeke Alemayehu Semegn is living in Addis Ababa. He graduated from Addis Ababa University in Geography and Environmental Studies in 2006. He also holds his MSc in Geographic Information Science (GIS) at Bahirdar University in 2011. He is working in Information Network Security Agency in Ethiopia from 2007.