The spatial structure of chronic morbidity: evidence from UK census returns
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The spatial structure of chronic morbidity: evidence from UK census returns
BACKGROUND Disease prevalence models have been widely used to estimate health, lifestyle and disability characteristics for small geographical units when other data are not available. Yet, knowledge is often lacking about how to make informed decisions around the specification of such models, especially regarding spatial assumptions placed on their covariance structure. This paper is concerned ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-016-0057-5