Diarrheal disease risk in rural Bangladesh decreases as tubewell density increases: A zero-inflated and geographically weighted analysis

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Carrel, Margaret ^a   Escamilla, Veronica ^b   Messina, Jane ^b   Giebultowicz, Sophia ^b   Winston, Jennifer ^b   Yunus, Mohammad ^c   Streatfield, P Kim ^c   Emch, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CHOLERA; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRINKING WATER; GIS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HEALTH RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION;

BANGLADESH; MATLAB;

DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DIARRHEA; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; DIARRHEA; DRINKING WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; WATER WELLS;

EID: 79958767972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-41     Document Type: Article

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