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From: A network analysis framework to improve the delivery of mosquito abatement services in Machala, Ecuador

Fig. 1

The South American country of Ecuador a contends with endemic dengue transmission, particularly in southern coastal El Oro province (b, shown in yellow). Machala (b, red star) is a port city in El Oro and the fourth largest city in the country. The Ecuadorian Ministry of Health deploys mosquito control activities in Machala through two centrally located deployment hubs (c). Mosquito abatement services formerly operated from several medical subcenters (red crosses) throughout the city. This figure was produced in ArcMap 10.4 (ESRI, Redlands, CA) using shapefiles from the GADM database of Global Administrative Areas, ver. 2.8 (gadm.org), transportation network and census data from INEC, and georeferenced facility locations provided by the MoH

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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X