Travel time to health facilities in areas of outbreak potential: Maps for guiding local preparedness and response

BMC Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Hulland, E N ^a   Wiens, K E ^a   Shirude, S ^a   Morgan, J D ^a   Bertozzi Villa, A ^b,c   Farag, T H ^a   Fullman, N ^a   Kraemer, M U G ^d   Miller Petrie, M K ^a   Gupta, V ^a   Reiner, R C ^a,e   Rabinowitz, P ^a   Wasserheit, J N ^a   Bell, B P ^a   Hay, S I ^a,e   Weiss, D J ^b   Pigott, D M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR DISEASE MODELING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CCHF; Ebola; Health facility access; Lassa fever; Marburg; Preparedness; Travel time; Viral hemorrhagic fevers

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; INFECTION RISK; NIGERIA; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME; TRAVEL; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VULNERABLE POPULATION; CIVIL DEFENSE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85077328372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1459-6     Document Type: Article

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