Spatial and temporal aberration detection methods for disease outbreaks in syndromic surveillance systems

Annals of GIS

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-220

  Chen, Dongmei ^a   Cunningham, John ^b   Moore, Kieran ^a   Tian, Jie ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Leeds Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit   (Canada)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disease outbreak detection; GIS; infectious disease; spatial and temporal aberration; syndromic surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; DETECTION METHOD; GIS; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859404115     PISSN: 19475683     EISSN: 19475691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2011.625979     Document Type: Review

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