Li Qiaoxuan, Cao Wei, Ren Hongyan, Ji Zhonglin, Jiang Huixian
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; School of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China.
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Acta Trop. 2018 Jul;183:8-13. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2018.03.026. Epub 2018 Mar 30.
Urbanization is one of the important factors leading to the spread of dengue fever. Recently, some studies found that the road network as an urbanization factor affects the distribution and spread of dengue epidemic, but the study of relationship between the distribution of dengue epidemic and road network is limited, especially in highly urbanized areas. This study explores the temporal and spatial spread characteristics of dengue fever in the distribution of road network by observing a dengue epidemic in the southern Chinese cities. Geographic information technology is used to extract the spatial location of cases and explore the temporal and spatial changes of dengue epidemic and its spatial relationship with road network. The results showed that there was a significant "severe" period in the temporal change of dengue epidemic situation, and the cases were mainly concentrated in the vicinity of narrow roads, the spread of the epidemic mainly along the high-density road network area. These results show that high-density road network is an important factor to the direction and scale of dengue epidemic. This information may be helpful to the development of related epidemic prevention and control strategies.
城市化是导致登革热传播的重要因素之一。最近,一些研究发现,道路网络作为城市化因素会影响登革热疫情的分布和传播,但关于登革热疫情分布与道路网络之间关系的研究有限,尤其是在高度城市化地区。本研究通过观察中国南方城市的登革热疫情,探讨道路网络分布中登革热的时空传播特征。利用地理信息技术提取病例的空间位置,探索登革热疫情的时空变化及其与道路网络的空间关系。结果表明,登革热疫情的时间变化存在显著的“严重”时期,病例主要集中在狭窄道路附近,疫情传播主要沿着高密度道路网络区域。这些结果表明,高密度道路网络是影响登革热疫情传播方向和规模的重要因素。这些信息可能有助于制定相关的疫情防控策略。