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Summary of epidemiological and environmental datasets |
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| Type of data |
Available data period |
Used data period |
Available time/space scale |
Used time/space scale |
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| 1 |
Meningitis cases |
1939-today |
1966–2005 |
Weekly/Health unit |
Annual/Country |
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Environmental variables |
1948-today |
1968–2005 |
4 values per day/grid-spacing of 2.5° latitude by 2.5° longitude |
Monthly/Country |
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The discrepancies between available and used data are justified in the Materials and Methods section. | |||||
Yaka et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:34 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-34 |
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