GIS mapping of earthquake-related deaths and hospital admissions from the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-13

  Peek Asa, Corinne ^a,c   Ramirez, Marizen R ^a   Shoaf, Kim ^a   Seligson, Hope ^b   Kraus, Jess F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EQE International Inc   (United States)

^c Box 951772 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disasters; Earthquake; Epidemiology; GIS; Injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PATIENT ADMISSION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0033971777     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(99)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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