The Summary Index of Malaria Surveillance (SIMS): A stable index of malaria within India

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cohen, Alan A ^a   Dhingra, Neeraj ^b   Jotkar, Raju M ^c   Rodriguez, Peter S ^a   Sharma, Vinod P ^d   Jha, Prabhat ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b National AIDS Control Organization   (India)

^c ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMARY INDEX OF MALARIA SURVEILLANCE; TREND STUDY;

INDIA;

EID: 77949474959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-8-1     Document Type: Article

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