Environmental risk factors and hotspot analysis of dengue distribution in Pakistan

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1721-1746

  Khalid, Bushra ^a,b   Ghaffar, Abdul ^a  

^a Department of Meteorology COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Climate covariates; Dengue outbreak; Monsoon season; Population; Social covariates; Stream density

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DENGUE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PAKISTAN; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RAIN; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

EID: 84943774347     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-0982-1     Document Type: Article

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