The impact of anthropogenic and environmental factors on human rabies cases in China

Abstract

Human rabies is a public health problem in Asia, especially in less-developed regions where the disease is under-reported because of a lack of epidemiological surveillance. To address this gap, we collected data on human rabies in Yunnan Province, China, between 2005 and 2016. Using statistical mapping techniques, we correlated the occurrence of human rabies to environmental (elevation, precipitation, normalized difference vegetation index [NDVI], temperature and distance to the nearest main rivers) and anthropogenic (human and dog population density, distance to the nearest main roads and gross domestic product [GDP]) factors. We used a performance score, the average area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (0.88), to validate our risk model. Using this model, we found that environmental factors were more strongly associated with human rabies occurrence than anthropogenic factors.

Big Geospatial Data or Geospatial Big Data? A Systematic Narrative Review on the Use of Spatial Data Infrastructures for Big Geospatial Sensing Data in Public Health

“…Geography (general, remote sensing, geoscience) [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] 10 Public health [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] 10 Environment (physical, built environment) [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] 8 Science (computer, engineering, multidisciplinary) [40][41][42][43] 4…”

“…China [13][14][15][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][33][34][35][36][37] 16 India [41] 1 Indonesia [31] 1…”

“…Malaria [21,31,41], hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome [25][26][27], soil-transmitted helminth [22], human rabies [30] 8…”

“…Personal devices such as mobile phones, UAVs, and wearables also serve as important sources of data. Public data [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][29][30][31][35][36][37]41] Clinical data Special permission may be required.…”

Spatial and temporal dynamic analysis of rabies: A review of current methodologies

“…It is believed that both environmental and anthropogenic factors contribute to rabies (Yu et al, 2020). Environmental factors include elevation, temperature, land cover, etc (Guo et al, 2018a), while anthropogenic factors include population density, economic development level and so on (Wilson et al, 1997).…”