The importance of appropriate temporal and spatial scales for dengue fever control and management

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 430, Issue , 2012, Pages 144-149

  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 (DF); Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; AEDES AEGYPTI; APPROPRIATE MODELS; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; CONTROL DECISIONS; DENGUE FEVER (DF); DIFFERENT SCALE; DISEASE RISKS; HIGH RATE; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; RISK AREAS; SPATIAL CLUSTER; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE;

DISEASE CONTROL;

HEALTH RISKS;

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; DENGUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR CONTROL;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENGUE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 84861368214     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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