Assessing the impact of meteorological factors on malaria patients in demilitarized zones in Republic of Korea

作     者：Se-Min Hwang Seok-Joon Yoon Yoo-Mi Jung Geun-Yong Kwon Soo-Nam Jo Eun-Jeong Jang Myoung-Ok Kwon 

作者机构：Korea Human Resource Development Institute for Health&WelfareOsongRepublic of Korea Department of Preventive MedicineCollege of MedicineKorea UniversitySeoulRepublic of Korea Department of Preventive MedicineArmed Forces Medical CommandSeongnamRepublic of Korea Department of Health Policy and Hospital ManagementGraduate School of Public HealthKorea University73 Inchon-ro.Seongbuk-GuSeoul 136-705Republic of Korea Korea Armed Forces Nursing Academy90 Jaun-roYuseong-guDaejeon 305-153Republic of Korea Korean Centers for Disease Control and PreventionOsongRepublic of Korea 

出 版 物：《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第5卷第1期

页      面：180-191页

核心收录：

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Malaria Plasmodium vivax Meteorological factors 

摘      要：Background:The trend of military patients becoming infected with vivax malaria reemerged in the Republic of Korea(ROK)in *** common explanation has been that infective Anopheles mosquitoes from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have invaded Republic of Korea’s demilitarized zone(DMZ).The aim of this study was to verify the relationship between meteorological factors and the number of malaria patients in the military in this ***:The authors estimated the effects of meteorological factors on vivax malaria patients from the military based on the monthly number of malaria cases between 2006 and ***,precipitation,snow depth,wind velocity,relative humidity,duration of sunshine,and cloud cover were selected as the meteorological factors to be studied.A systematic pattern in the spatial distribution of malaria cases was assessed using the Moran’s *** causality tests and cross-correlation coefficients were used to evaluate the relationship between meteorological factors and malaria patients in the ***:Spatial analysis revealed significant clusters of malaria patients in the military in Republic of Korea in 2011(Moran’s I=0.136,p-value=0.026).In the six years investigated,the number of malaria patients in the military in Paju decreased,but the number of malaria patients in the military in Hwacheon and Chuncheon *** average,maximum and minimum temperatures;wind velocity;and relative humidity were found to be predicting factors of malaria in patients in the military in *** contrast,wind velocity alone was not able to predict malaria in Hwacheon and Chuncheon,however,precipitation and cloud cover were able to predict malaria in Hwacheon and ***:This study demonstrated that the number of malaria patients in the military is correlated with meteorological *** variation in occurrence of malaria cases was principally attributed to differences in meteorological factors by regions of