Association between climate variables and dengue incidence in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand
| Autor: | Aroon La-up, Pannee Cheewinsiriwat, Pakorn Ditthakit, Fatima Ibrahim Abdulsalam, Warit Jawjit, Supabhorn Yimthiang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Wet season
Health (social science) Climate Geography Planning and Development Medicine (miscellaneous) Monsoon Dengue fever law.invention spatial statistics Dengue law Thailand Tropical climate medicine Animals Rice farming Socioeconomics geographic information systems Geography (General) Health Policy Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Climatic variables Humidity medicine.disease Geography Transmission (mechanics) coldspot G1-922 hotspot |
| Zdroj: | Geospatial Health, Vol 16, Iss 2 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1970-7096 |
| Popis: | The tropical climate of Thailand encourages very high mosquito densities in certain areas and is ideal for dengue transmission, especially in the southern region where the province Nakhon Si Thammarat is located. It has the longest dengue fever transmission duration that is affected by some important climate predictors, such as rainfall, number of rainy days, temperature and humidity. We aimed to explore the relationship between weather variables and dengue and to analyse transmission hotspots and coldspots at the district-level. Poisson probability distribution of the generalized linear model (GLM) was used to examine the association between the monthly weather variable data and the reported number of dengue cases from January 2002 to December 2018 and geographic information system (GIS) for dengue hotspot analysis. Results showed a significant association between the environmental variables and dengue incidence when comparing the seasons. Temperature, sea-level pressure and wind speed had the highest coefficients, i.e. β=0.17, β= –0.12 and β= –0.11 (P |
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