Open AccessAssociation between Rainfall and Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Acute Gastrointestinal Illness
Author(s) -
Patrick C. Drayna,
Sandra L. McLellan,
Pippa Simpson,
Shun-Hwa Li,
Marc H. Gorelick
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.0901671
Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , distributed lag , confounding , population , public health , outbreak , environmental health , diarrhea , disease , pediatrics , demography , nursing , machine learning , psychiatry , sociology , computer science , virology
Microbial water contamination after periods of heavy rainfall is well described, but its link to acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) in children is not well known.
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