Impact of meteorological factors on the spatiotemporal patterns of dengue fever incidence

Environment International

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-56

  Chien, Lung Chang ^a,b   Yu, Hwa Lung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climatic effect; Dengue fever; Distributed lag nonlinear effects; Spatiotemporal modeling; Temporal delayed effect

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MARKOV PROCESSES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RAIN;

CLIMATIC EFFECTS; DELAYED EFFECTS; DENGUE FEVERS; NONLINEAR EFFECT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

RAIN;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; MARKOV CHAIN; NONLINEARITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WINTER; TEMPERATURE;

TAIWAN;

DENGUE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RAIN; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84905190212     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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