The association between farming activities, precipitation, and the risk of acute gastrointestinal illness in rural municipalities of Quebec, Canada: A cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Febriani, Yossi ^a   Levallois, Patrick ^a,b   Gingras, Suzanne ^b   Gosselin, Pierre ^a,b,c   Majowicz, Shannon E ^d,e   Fleury, Manon D ^d  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUEBEC; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649315379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-48     Document Type: Article

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