Community health status indicators: Adding a geospatial component

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Heitgerd, Janet L ^a   Dent, Andrew L ^a   Holt, James B ^b   Elmore, Kimberlee A ^a   Melfi, Koren ^c   Stanley, Jennifer M ^d   Highsmith, Keisher ^e   Kanarek, Norma ^f   Comer, Karen Frederickson ^g   Metzler, Marilyn M ^b   Kaplan, Brian ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Association of State and Territorial Health Officials   (United States)

^d Public Health Foundation   (United States)

^e HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

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

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84978426215     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
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