Tuberculosis incidence in Portugal: Spatiotemporal clustering

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nunes, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PORTUGAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PORTUGAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34548537522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-30     Document Type: Article

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