Burden of disease measured by disability-adjusted life years and a disease forecasting time series model of scrub typhus in Laiwu, China.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Li-Ping Yang, Si-Yuan Liang, Xian-Jun Wang, Xiu-Jun Li, Yan-Ling Wu, Wei Ma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Daly; Sarima
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003420; https://doaj.org/article/c42196d4f8ef448c9e3b485756d487e1

Laiwu District is recognized as a hyper-endemic region for scrub typhus in Shandong Province, but the seriousness of this problem has been neglected in public health circles.A disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) approach was adopted to measure the burden of scrub typhus in Laiwu, China during the...