Population-based surveillance of pediatric pneumonia: use of spatial analysis in an urban area of Central Brazil

Population-based surveillance of pediatric pneumonia: use of spatial analysis in an urban area of Central Brazil

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This study examined the spatial distribution of childhood community-acquired pneumonia detected through prospective surveillance in Goiânia, Brazil. Three spatial analysis techniques were applied to detect intra-urban geographic aggregation of pneumonia cases: Kernel method, nearest neighbor hierarc...

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Main Authors: Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de Andrade, Simonne Almeida e Silva, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Renato Maurício de Oliveira, Otaliba Libânio de Morais Neto, João Bosco Siqueira Júnior, Lícia Kamila Melo, José Luis Di Fábio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Series:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Subjects:
pneumonia
child health
spatial analysis
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2004000200008&lng=en&tlng=en

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