The correlation between dengue fever, hand foot mouth diseases and some weather factors, 2010 - 2019

Abstract

Climate change is a global challenge, affecting all disciplines. In the medical feld, climate change has been changed disease patterns and threatened public health. The retrospective study was conducted to fnd the relationship between the weather factors caused by climate change and the number of dengue cases and hand foot mouth disease cases in Vung Tau City, 2010
- 2019. Weather parameters (temperature, humidity, precipitation) and the number of dengue cases and hand foot mouth disease cases were described and analysed using correlation and linear regression to fnd the relationship between weather factors and the disease model. The results showed that in the period 2010 - 2019, the temperature tended to increase, while
rainfall and humidity decreased gradually. For the annual results, in the years when La Nino event occurred, there was a relationship between Hand Foot Mouth disease cases and humidity (2011 - 2013, 2017, 2019) and precipitation (2011 - 2013) (p < 0,05). There was an association between Dengue cases and precipitation in 2013 and 2019 (p < 0,05). Preventive measures for hand foot mouth disease and dengue should be proper to the specifc period of climate change.