Monitoring Disease Trends using Hospital Traffic Data from High Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Feasibility Study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nsoesie, Elaine O ^a,b   Butler, Patrick ^d   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^d   Mekaru, Sumiko R ^a   Brownstein, John S ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CHILE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEXICO; PROCEDURES; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARGENTINA; CHILE; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEXICO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84924785639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09112     Document Type: Article

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