Prioritizing interventions for echinococcosis prevention in China: a population attributable fraction analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite population-level control efforts, human echinococcosis continues to pose a public health challenge in China. Targeting modifiable risk factors at the individual level could be another recipe, but the priority targets for intervention remain unclear. Our aim was to quantify the potential health gains of hypothetical interventions on modifiable risk factors for human echinococcosis, informing effective control strategies.

Methods

We collected and aggregated data on the association between modifiable risk factors and human echinococcosis and national total echinococcosis (cystic echinococcosis [CE], alveolar echinococcosis [AE], and other unclassified cases) incidence during 2007-2020 in China. A Bayesian hierarchical model was developed to pool effect estima

SUBMITTER: Xu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12685506 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature