6 Research and Policy

What makes a model good? Fit for purpose?

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Macdonald’s model was put to the test in a field trial, conducted from September 1966 through February 1969 in the southern part of the Kankiya District of the Katsina Emirate in the North Central State of Nigeria [73]. A major conclusion was that the failures were …in a considerable part due to the deficiencies of the model.

Some of those discrepancies were addressed through the development of a new model developed for a new field trial that was conducted in Garki, Nigeria [74].

References

73.

Nájera JA. A critical review of the field application of a mathematical model of malaria eradication. Bull World Health Organ. 1974;50: 449–457. Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4156197

74.

Dietz K, Molineaux L, Thomas A. A malaria model tested in the African savannah. Bull World Health Organ. 1974;50: 347–357. Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4613512