Assessing the risk for dengue fever based on socioeconomic and environmental variables in a geographical information system environment

Geospatial Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-176

  Khormi, Hassan M ^a,b   Kumar, Lalit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dengue fever; Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors; Geographical information system; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860994002     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2012.135     Document Type: Article

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