Five Essential Properties of Disease Maps

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1067-1075

  Beyer, Kirsten M M ^a   Tiwari, Chetan ^b   Rushton, Gerard ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; disease mapping; spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CANCER; MAPPING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864554906     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.659940     Document Type: Article

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