Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease

Health and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 677-690

  Dunn, Christine E ^a   S Bhopal, Raj ^b   Cockings, Samantha ^c   Walker, David ^d   Rowlingson, Barry ^e   Diggle, Peter ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d East Midlands Strategic Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental health; GIS; Legionnaires' disease; Multidisciplinary; Point pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; HEALTH SURVEY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33947667859     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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