Risk of tuberculosis in high-rise and high density dwellings: an exploratory spatial analysis.

Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

Volumn 183, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-45

  Lai, Poh Chin ^a   Low, Chien Tat ^b   Tse, Wing Sze Cindy ^b   Tsui, Chun Kan ^b   Lee, Herman ^b   Hui, Pak Kwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HONG KONG; HOUSING; HUMAN; POLLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROCEDURES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HONG KONG; HOUSING; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VENTILATION;

EID: 84891692015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.11.025     Document Type: Article

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