Examining the Effect of the Environment and Commuting Flow from/to Epidemic Areas on the Spread of Dengue Fever

Environment and human mobility have been considered as two important factors that drive the outbreak and transmission of dengue fever (DF). Most studies focus on the local environment while neglecting environment of the places, especially epidemic areas that people came from or traveled to. Commutin...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2019-12, Vol.16 (24), p.5013
Main Authors: Zhou, Shuli, Zhou, Suhong, Liu, Lin, Zhang, Meng, Kang, Min, Xiao, Jianpeng, Song, Tie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cell Phone
Cellular telephones
Commuting
Dengue - epidemiology
Dengue - transmission
Dengue fever
Disease control
Disease prevention
Disease transmission
Environment
Environmental effects
Epidemics
Fever
Humans
Immunoglobulin M
Infectious diseases
Medical treatment
Mobility
Public health
RNA viruses
Spatial Regression
Studies
Transportation
Vector-borne diseases
Viruses
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Summary:Environment and human mobility have been considered as two important factors that drive the outbreak and transmission of dengue fever (DF). Most studies focus on the local environment while neglecting environment of the places, especially epidemic areas that people came from or traveled to. Commuting is a major form of interactions between places. Therefore, this research generates commuting flows from mobile phone tracked data. Geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used to examine the effect of commuting flows, especially those from/to epidemic areas, on DF in 2014 at the level in Guangzhou. The results suggest that (1) commuting flows from/to epidemic areas affect the transmission of DF; (2) such effects vary in space; and (3) the spatial variation of the effects can be explained by the environment of the epidemic areas that commuters commuted from/to. These findings have important policy implications for making effective intervention strategies, especially when resources are limited.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph16245013