Tropical influenza and weather variability among children in an urban low-income population in Bangladesh

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Imai, Chisato ^a,b   Brooks, W Abdullah ^c,d   Chung, Yeonseung ^e   Goswami, Doli ^c   Anjali, Bilkis Ara ^c   Dewan, Ashraf ^f,g   Kim, Ho ^h   Hashizume, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^f CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^h Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Children; Influenza; Low income; Poor; Time series; Tropics; Urban; Weather

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; CHILD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE; WEATHER;

BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WEATHER;

EID: 84928764277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.24413     Document Type: Article

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