1. WHO publications:

Field Guide for Malaria Epidemic Assessment and Reporting. Draft for Field Testing [PDF 705 KB]

WHO/HTM/MAL/2004.1097
This guide is written to help field health staff at district and provincial levels to identify malaria epidemics as early as possible after their emergence, and to gather the appropriate information that will help to guide the response.

2. Additional publications:

Alert Threshold Algorithms and Malaria Epidemic Detection

Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2004

The authors describe a method for comparing the ability of different alert threshold algorithms to detect malaria epidemics and use it with a dataset consisting of weekly malaria cases collected from health facilities in 10 districts of Ethiopia.