Did socio-ecological factors drive the spatiotemporal patterns of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)?

Environment International

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-43

  Hu, Wenbiao ^a   Williams, Gail ^a   Phung, Hai ^b   Birrell, Frances ^b   Tong, Shilu ^c   Mengersen, Kerrie ^c   Huang, Xiaodong ^c   Clements, Archie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian spatial conditional autoregressive; H1N1; Socio ecological factors

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS; AUTO-REGRESSION; BRISBANE; BRISBANE , AUSTRALIA; CONDITIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE; CREDIBLE INTERVAL; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; H1N1; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; QUEENSLAND; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TRANSMISSION CYCLES;

ECOLOGY;

RAIN;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISEASE SPREAD; HEALTH IMPACT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AUSTRALIA; BRISBANE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84860578291     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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