Disparities in influenza mortality and transmission related to sociodemographic factors within Chicago in the pandemic of 1918

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 13839-13844

  Grantz, Kyra H ^a   Rane, Madhura S ^b   Salje, Henrik ^c,d   Glass, Gregory E ^a   Schachterle, Stephen E ^e   Cummings, Derek A T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Influenza; Mortality; Sociodemographic; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; FEMALE; HISTORY; INFANT; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); MALE; NEWBORN; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84999273656     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612838113     Document Type: Article

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