Impacts of floods on dysentery in Xinxiang city, China, during 2004–2010: a time-series Poisson analysis

Background: Xinxiang, a city in Henan Province, suffered from frequent floods due to persistent and heavy precipitation from 2004 to 2010. In the same period, dysentery was a common public health problem in Xinxiang, with the proportion of reported cases being the third highest among all the notifie...

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Main Authors: Wei Ni, Guoyong Ding, Yifei Li, Hongkai Li, Baofa Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-08-01
Series:Global Health Action
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Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/download/23904/pdf_1