Trends, seasonality and forecasts of pulmonary tuberculosis in Portugal
Author(s) -
Alexandra Le Bras,
Dulce Gomes,
Paulo Filipe,
Bruno de Sousa,
Carla Nunes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1815-7920
pISSN - 1027-3719
DOI - 10.5588/ijtld.14.0158
Subject(s) - seasonality , incidence (geometry) , autoregressive integrated moving average , medicine , demography , pulmonary tuberculosis , tuberculosis , epidemiology , population , public health , seasonal adjustment , time series , statistics , environmental health , pathology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , variable (mathematics) , sociology , optics
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health concern. Surveillance programmes present invaluable epidemiological information regarding its temporal evolution, particularly for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), the most common form of TB and the one that presents the greatest challenge in public health.
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