Deutsch Grunes Kreuz, Marburg
Harmonization methods used to make spatial predictions for influenza data
Published in Law and Health Weekly, August 28th, 2004
According to a study from Germany, "Geographical information system (GIS) based on mappings of influenza data are rare and influenza data are commonly aggregated for rather large areas (http://www.eiss.org, http://oms2b3e.jussieu.fr/FluNet).
"The most limiting factors for the use of morbidity-data from practices in GIS-based mappings are differences which are not related to morbidity. These differences may be due to consultation behavior, interpretation of the case definition, age distribution of patients and other...
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