Determinants of the incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease in China using geographically weighted regression models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Hu, Maogui ^a   Li, Zhongjie ^b   Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Jia, Lin ^c   Liao, Yilan ^d   Lai, Shengjie ^b   Guo, Yansha ^e   Zhao, Dan ^b   Yang, Weizhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLIMATE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862502578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038978     Document Type: Article

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