Spatial Epidemiology: Current Approaches and Future Challenges
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- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 112 (9) , 998-1006
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6735
Abstract
Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of geographic variations in disease with respect to demographic, environmental, behavioral, socioeconomic, genetic, and infectious risk factors. We focus on small-area analyses, encompassing disease ...Keywords
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