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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 9 : 881-882
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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An Introductory Guide to Disease Mapping

Paul B. English

Environmental Health Investigations Branch Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control California Department of Health Services Oakland, CA 94612

In the last decade, we have seen an explosion of interest in disease mapping, with the recent developments in advanced spatial statistics and the increasing availability of computerized geographic information system technology. Geographic clustering of childhood leukemia cases has become an issue of concern to the general public, from the clusters investigated near the Sellafield nuclear facility in the United Kingdom to the Woburn, Massachusetts, investigation popularized by the film "A Civil Action." The new volume on disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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