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Author: Wang, Jin-Feng; Christakos, George; Han, Wei-Guo; Meng, Bin
Title: Data-driven exploration of ‘spatial pattern-time process-driving forces’ associations of SARS epidemic in Beijing, China
  • Document date: 2008_4_26
  • ID: 2nko37oo_8
    Snippet: The first SARS case in Beijing was recorded on 1 March 2003. The city consists of 16 districts and 2 counties, with a total population of 12.5 million people occupying an area of 17 800 km 2 . Information about SARS cases was available daily from authorized reports, beginning on 20 April 2003 and continuing till the end of the epidemic on 24 June 2003. Since April 27, the data in each of the 18 Beijing districts were obtained in GIS format. GIS d.....
    Document: The first SARS case in Beijing was recorded on 1 March 2003. The city consists of 16 districts and 2 counties, with a total population of 12.5 million people occupying an area of 17 800 km 2 . Information about SARS cases was available daily from authorized reports, beginning on 20 April 2003 and continuing till the end of the epidemic on 24 June 2003. Since April 27, the data in each of the 18 Beijing districts were obtained in GIS format. GIS data also provided the residential locations of all 11 108 people who had been in close contact with infected persons. This information was collected by exhaustively tracing SARS cases from 20 April 2003 onwards and backwards. Other data that were considered relevant to the epidemic were also obtained, including population counts in 246 census units, hospital locations, number of doctors in each hospital and the topography of the main traffic lines.

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