Influence of social and meteorological factors on hand, foot, and mouth disease in Sichuan Province.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by a variety of enteroviruses remains a major public health problem in China. Previous studies have found that social factors may contribute to the inconsistency of the relationship patterns between meteorological factors and HFMD, but the conclusions are inconsistent. The influence of social factors on the association between meteorology and HFMD is still less well understood. We aimed to analyze whether social factors affected the effect of meteorological factors on HFMD in Sichuan Province.

Method

We collected daily data on HFMD, meteorological factors and social factors in Sichuan Province from 2011 to 2017. First, we used a Bayesian spatiotemporal model combined with a distributed lag nonlinear model to evaluate the

SUBMITTER: Jiang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170695 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature