title: Geographic patterns of disease.
abstract: The preparation and use of a computerised grid for demonstrating the temporal and spatial distribution of outbreaks of infectious hepatitis is described. Methods of social area and cluster analysis are described and it is suggested that use could be made in New Zealand of these methods of analysis, taking social data obtained from the census and linking it with mortality and morbidity data obtained by geographical reference.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D012111:Residence Characteristics