Temporal changes in the spatial pattern of disease rates incorporating known risk factors

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-19

  Banerjee, Aniruddha ^a  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Des Moines; Generalized linear model (GLM); Infant mortality; Monte Carlo simulations; Space; Spatial analysis; Time; USA

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; IOWA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249906418     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.03.040     Document Type: Article

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