Quantifying the relationship between the climate and Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease (HFMD) incidences

2011 4th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Leong, Pei Fung ^a   Labadin, Jane ^a   Rahman, Shapiee Bin Abd ^a   Juan, Sarah Flora Samson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

climate; Hand Foot Mouth Disease; HFMD; relationship; weather

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; HAND-FOOT-MOUTH DISEASE; HFMD; RELATIONSHIP; WEATHER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 79959679933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMSAO.2011.5775582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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