Spatial and demographic patterns of Cholera in Ashanti region - Ghana

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Osei, Frank B ^a   Duker, Alfred A ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; METROPOLITAN AREA; OVERCROWDING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ASHANTI; GHANA; KUMASI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GHANA; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBANIZATION;

CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GHANA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 51949118949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-44     Document Type: Article

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