Vector fields of risk: A new approach to the geographical representation of childhood asthma

One of the major challenges in health studies with a spatial dimension is to produce valid and meaningful geographical representations of risk. This issue has arisen in our research on childhood asthma and proximity to traffic in Perth, Western Australia. To illustrate the spatial variation in risk...

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Main Authors: Pereira, Gavin, De Vos, A., Cook, A., D'Arcy J Holman, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3918