Prioritising Infectious Disease Mapping.

• Main Authors: David M Pigott (Author), Rosalind E Howes (Author), Antoinette Wiebe (Author), Katherine E Battle (Author), Nick Golding (Author), Peter W Gething (Author), Scott F Dowell (Author), Tamer H Farag (Author), Andres J Garcia (Author), Ann M Kimball (Author), L Kendall Krause (Author), Craig H Smith (Author), Simon J Brooker (Author), Hmwe H Kyu (Author), Theo Vos (Author), Christopher J L Murray (Author), Catherine L Moyes (Author), Simon I Hay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Increasing volumes of data and computational capacity afford unprecedented opportunities to scale up infectious disease (ID) mapping for public health uses. Whilst a large number of IDs show global spatial variation, comprehensive knowledge of these geographic patterns is poor. Here we us...