Analyzing the volume and nature of emergency medical calls during severe weather events using regression methodologies

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-66

  McLay, Laura A ^a   Boone, Edward L ^a   Brooks, J Paul ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster preparedness; Emergency medical services; Logistic regression; Multiple linear regression; Weather disasters; Zero inflated Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HURRICANE EVENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POISSON RATIO; PUBLIC SERVICE; SAFETY; WEATHER;

HANOVER COUNTY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84155162904     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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