Geographical detector-based risk assessment of the under-five mortality in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Yi ^a,b   Wang, Jinfeng ^b   Li, Xiaohong ^c   Ren, Dan ^c   Zhu, Jun ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHINA; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DETECTOR BASED RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; DISASTER; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79959585033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021427     Document Type: Article

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