Health research based on geospatial tools: A timely approach in a changing environment

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Bergquist, Robert ^a   Rinaldi, Laura ^b  

^a Ingerod ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIROFILARIASIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FASCIOLIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HELMINTH; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; RADIATION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSOR; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

VERMES;

EID: 77949657266     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X09990484     Document Type: Review

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