Quantifying Poverty as a Driver of Ebola Transmission

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Fallah, Mosoka P ^a,b,c,d   Skrip, Laura A ^d   Gertler, Shai ^d   Yamin, Dan ^d,e   Galvani, Alison P ^c,d  

^a Ministry of Health ^*  (Liberia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA   (Liberia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING (AREA); DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELFARE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECONOMIC MODEL; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INCIDENCE; LIBERIA; MALE; MARKOV CHAIN; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIBERIA; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84953333556     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004260     Document Type: Article

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