Forecasting high-priority infectious disease surveillance regions: A socioeconomic model

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 517-524

  Chan, Emily H ^a,b   Scales, David A ^a,b   Brewer, Timothy F ^d,f,g   Madoff, Lawrence C ^d,e   Pollack, Marjorie P ^d   Hoen, Anne G ^h   Choden, Tenzin ^a,b   Brownstein, John S ^a,b,c,f,g  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d International Society for Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

communicable diseases; disease outbreaks; epidemiology; public health; socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BURUNDI; CHAD; CHINA; COLOMBIA; CONGO; COTE D'IVOIRE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KENYA; LATITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MYANMAR; NIGERIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; SUDAN; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UGANDA; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84873031145     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis932     Document Type: Article

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