Disparity in spectrum of infectious diseases between in-school and out-of-school children, adolescents, and youths in China: findings from a successive national surveillance from 2013 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An accelerated epidemiological transition, economic development and urbanization have brought rapid reductions but a potential disparity in infectious diseases burdens in-school and out-of-school children, adolescents, and youths in China. This paper assesses the disparity in spectrum of infectious diseases between two groups, and described disparity's variation by age, year and province, and determined the priority diseases.

Methods

A total of 7,912,274 new incident cases (6,159,021 in school and 1,753,253 out of school) aged 6-21 years across 43 notifiable infectious diseases have been collected based on China's Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System from 2013 to 2021. All infectious diseases are categorized into seven categories: vaccine preventable,

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10544430 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature