Table 1

Summary of epidemiological and environmental datasets


Type of data
Available
data period
Used data
period
Available time/space
scale
Used time/space
scale

1
Meningitis
cases
1939-today
1966–2005
Weekly/Health unit
Annual/Country
2
Environmental
variables
1948-today
1968–2005
4 values per
day/grid-spacing of 2.5°
latitude by 2.5°
longitude
Monthly/Country

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