Climate services for health: predicting the evolution of the 2016 dengue season in Machala, Ecuador

The Lancet Planetary Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2017, Pages e142-e151

  Lowe, Rachel ^a,b   Stewart Ibarra, Anna M ^c   Petrova, Desislava ^b   García Díez, Markel ^d   Borbor Cordova, Mercy J ^e   Mejía, Raúl ^f   Regato, Mary ^g   Rodó, Xavier ^b,h  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^d Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL   (Spain)

^e ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^f National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology   (Ecuador)

^g National Institute of Public Health Research (INSPI) of the Ministry of Health   (Ecuador)

^h INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHIKUNGUNYA; CLIMATE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECUADOR; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ERROR; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; CITY; FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; WEATHER;

CITIES; CLIMATE; DENGUE; ECUADOR; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING; INCIDENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEATHER;

EID: 85040651196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 25425196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30064-5     Document Type: Article

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