Chisato Imai, Ben Armstrong, Zaid Chalabi, Punam Mangtani et al.
Time series regression has been developed and long used to evaluate the short-term associations of air pollution and weather with mortality or morbidity of non-infectious diseases. The application of the regression approaches from this tradition to infectious diseases, however, is less well explored...
Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Bernd Genser, Maurício L. Barreto, Thomas Clasen et al.
BACKGROUND: Measuring recurrent infections such as diarrhoea or respiratory infections in epidemiological studies is a methodological challenge. Problems in measuring the incidence of recurrent infections include the episode definition, recall error, and the logistics of close follow up. Longitudina...
Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Bernd Genser, Stephen P. Luby, Zaid Chalabi
There is an ongoing interest in studying the effect of common recurrent infections and conditions, such as diarrhoea, respiratory infections, and fever, on the nutritional status of children at risk of malnutrition. Epidemiological studies exploring this association need to measure infections with s...