Surveillance of Hand,Foot,and Mouth Disease in China's Mainland (2008-2009)
Surveillance of Hand,Foot,and Mouth Disease in China's Mainland (2008-2009)作者机构:Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health Sun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou 510080 Guangdong China Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Beijing 102206 China
出 版 物:《Biomedical and Environmental Sciences》 (生物医学与环境科学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2011年第24卷第4期
页 面:349-356页
核心收录:
学科分类:02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 07[理学] 020202[经济学-区域经济学] 070201[理学-理论物理] 0702[理学-物理学]
主 题:Hand foot and mouth disease China's Mainland Surveillance Epidemiologic features
摘 要:Objective Since HFMD was designated as a class C communicable disease in May 2008,18 months surveillance data have been accumulated to December *** article was to describe the distribution of HFMD for age,sex,area,and time between 2008 and 2009,to reveal the characteristics of the *** We analyzed weekly reported cases of HFMD from May 2008 to December 2009,and presented data on the distribution of age,sex,area and time.A discrete Poisson model was used to detect spatial-temporal clusters of *** More than 1 065 000 cases of HFMD were reported in China s Mainland from May 2008 to December 2009 (total incidence:12.47 per 10 000).Male incidence was higher than female for all ages and 91.9% of patients were 5 years *** incidence was highest in Beijing,Shanghai,Zhejiang and *** highest peak of HFMD cases was in April and the number of cases remained high from April to *** spatial-temporal distribution detected four *** Children 5 years old were susceptible to HFMD and we should be aware of their *** incidence was higher in urban than rural areas,and an annual pandemic usually starts in April.