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Measuring Spatial Dependence for Infectious Disease Epidemiology
PLOS ONE, 2016 Global spatial clustering is the tendency of points, here cases of infectious disease, to occur closer together than expected by chance. The extent of global clustering can provide a window into the spatial scale of disease transmission, thereby providing insights into the mechanism of spread, and informing optimal surveillance and control.
Lessler, Justin +3 more
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Local variations in spatial synchrony of influenza epidemics [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Understanding the mechanism of influenza spread across multiple geographic scales is not complete. While the mechanism of dissemination across regions and states of the United States has been described, understanding the determinants of ...
Alex R. Cook +8 more
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, 2016 Analyzing huge amounts of spatial data plays an important role in many emerging analysis and decision-making domains such as healthcare, urban planning, agriculture and so on.
Davari, Somaye, Ghadiri, Nasser
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Hookworm Infection and Environmental Factors in Mbeya Region, Tanzania: A Cross-sectional, Population-based study. [PDF]
, 2013 Hookworm disease is one of the most common infections and cause of a high disease burden in the tropics and subtropics. Remotely sensed ecological data and model-based geostatistics have been used recently to identify areas in need for hookworm control ...
A Huete +47 more
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Global distribution maps of the leishmaniases
eLife, 2014 The leishmaniases are vector-borne diseases that have a broad global distribution throughout much of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Despite representing a significant public health burden, our understanding of the global distribution of the ...
David M Pigott +17 more
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Spatial analysis of hospital admissions for respiratory diseases during summer months in Berlin taking bioclimatic and socio-economic aspects into account [PDF]
DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2014 International environmental health studies of the past years have discussed the impacts of heat stress on human health. In particular, respiratory morbidity has shown significant heat effects in European cities.
Scherber, Katharina +2 more
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Epidemiology of canine atopic dermatitis [PDF]
, 2007 Canine atopic dermatitis (CAD) is a chronic, allergic skin disease associated with IgE-mediated reactions to environmental allergens. Atopic dermatitis/eczema in humans shares many similarities with CAD and is an increasing problem in industrialized ...
Nødtvedt, Ane
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FAO Training Workshop on "Epidemiology, surveillance, outbreaks investigation and training engineering in epidemiological field", U Choice Hotel, Lunming - China, 29th june-9th july 2009 : Mission report [PDF]
, 2009 Cet atelier a été organisé par la FAO en collaboration avec le CIRAD et les services vétérinaires chinois. La formation a été divisée en deux parties distinctes: la première avait pour objectif de renforcer les capacités des agents des services ...
Desvaux, Stéphanie +2 more
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Spatial Epidemiological Pattern of HIV
Asia Pacific Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2017 This paper aims to explain the prevalence rate of Human Immunodeficiency Virus worldwide. The data matrix of CIA World Fact Book (2015) was used through new methodologies enclosed in fractal statistical analysis and data mining. After analyzing the data sets of different countries, a pattern was observed regarding the spatial epidemiological spread of ...
Zenas B Paloma, Carina Joane V Barroso
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Geospatial Health, 2015 Helminth infections are believed to be common in tropical and subtropical countries. A cross-sectional study was carried out in two villages located in Guichi District in Anhui Province, the People’s Republic of China, where multiparasitism was ...
Yi Hu +11 more
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