Use of Activity Space in a Tuberculosis Outbreak: Bringing Homeless Persons Into Spatial Analyses | Zendy

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Use of Activity Space in a Tuberculosis Outbreak: Bringing Homeless Persons Into Spatial Analyses

Author(s) -

Mary Claire Worrell,

Michael R. Kramer,

Aliya Yamin,

Susan M. Ray,

Neela D. Goswami

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofw280

Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , tuberculosis , psychological intervention , public health , environmental health , disease , demography , gerontology , pathology , psychiatry , sociology

Innovative spatial methods allowed us to more comprehensively capture the geography of TB-infected homeless persons, who made up a large portion of the Fulton County outbreak. We demonstrate how activity space analysis, prominent in exposure science and chronic disease, supports that routine capture of multiple location TB data may facilitate spatially different public health interventions than traditional surveillance maps.

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