Three-month real-time dengue forecast models: An early warning system for outbreak alerts and policy decision support in Singapore

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1369-1375

  Shi, Yuan ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Kok, Suet Yheng ^a   Rajarethinam, Jayanthi ^a   Liang, Shaohong ^a   Yap, Grace ^a   Chong, Chee Seng ^a   Lee, Kim Sung ^a   Tan, Sharon S Y ^a   Chin, Christopher Kuan Yew ^a   Lo, Andrew ^a   Kong, Waiming ^b   Ng, Lee Ching ^a,c   Cook, Alex R ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^e YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGAPORE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FORECASTING; INCIDENCE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; VIROLOGY;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DENGUE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SINGAPORE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84985021244     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509981     Document Type: Article

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