A national facility for small area disease mapping and rapid initial assessment of apparent disease clusters around a point source: The UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit

Journal of Public Health Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-298

  Aylin, Paul ^a   Maheswaran, Ravi ^a   Wakefield, Jon ^a   Cookings, Samantha ^a   Jarup, Lars ^a   Arnold, Richard ^a   Wheeler, Gideon ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease clusters; Disease mapping; Geographical information systems; Small areas

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPUTER; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032878025     PISSN: 09574832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/21.3.289     Document Type: Article

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