Feasibility and utility of mapping disease risk at the neighbourhood level within a Canadian public health unit: An ecological study

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Holowaty, Eric J ^a,b   Norwood, Todd A ^a   Wanigaratne, Susitha ^a   Abellan, Juanjo J ^c   Beale, Linda ^d  

^a Population Studies and Surveillance   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MAPPING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77951949099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-21     Document Type: Article

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