Modeling diarrhea disease in children less than 5 years old

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 371-377

  Kale, Pauline Lorena ^a   Hinde, John Philip ^b   Nobre, Flávio Fonseca ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ACF; Diarrhea Disease; Generalized Linear Models; generalized linear models; GLMs; Hospitalization Information System; Mortality Information System; oral rehydration therapy; ORT; SD; SIH DATASUS; SIM DATASUS; standard deviation; Time Series

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; WEATHER;

AGE FACTORS; BRAZIL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 3142760894     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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