Abstract:Background: Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is one of the common intestinal infectious diseases worldwide and has caused huge economic and disease burdens in many countries. The average annual incidence rate of HFMD was 11.66% in Shaanxi during the time span from 2009 to 2018. There are distinct differences within Shaanxi, as it is a special region that crosses three temperature zones. Hence, in this study, a spatiotemporal analysis of Shaanxi was performed to reveal the characteristics of the distribution… Show more
“…Infectious diseases generally have distribution characteristics of spatial autocorrelation (Adham et al 2020 ; Masinaei et al 2020 ; Ding et al 2021 ). Spatial autocorrelation embodies the distribution law of the agglomeration or dispersion of infectious diseases on the spatial level, which is of great significance to the stage analysis and situation prediction of diseases (Zhang et al 2019 ; Mao et al 2020 ).…”
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“…Infectious diseases generally have distribution characteristics of spatial autocorrelation (Adham et al 2020 ; Masinaei et al 2020 ; Ding et al 2021 ). Spatial autocorrelation embodies the distribution law of the agglomeration or dispersion of infectious diseases on the spatial level, which is of great significance to the stage analysis and situation prediction of diseases (Zhang et al 2019 ; Mao et al 2020 ).…”
Section: Research Methods and Data Sourcesmentioning
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