Investigation of geo-spatial hotspots for the occurrence of tuberculosis in Almora district, India, using GIS and spatial scan statistic

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tiwari, Neeraj ^a   Adhikari, C M S ^b   Tewari, Ajoy ^c   Kandpal, Vineeta ^d  

^a KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PCI Software Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c Community Health Centre ^*  (India)

^d GSVM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INDIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748286933     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-33     Document Type: Article

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