1. Climate variability and dengue hemorrhagic fever in Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
- Author
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Kanchana Nakhapakorn, Suwalee Worakhunpiset, Kraichat Tantrakarnapa, and Ramadhan Tosepu
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Dengue hemorrhagic fever ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Climate Change ,Incidence ,030231 tropical medicine ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Pollution ,Dengue fever ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Geography ,Indonesia ,medicine ,Dengue transmission ,Environmental Chemistry ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Severe Dengue ,Demography - Abstract
To determine the association of climatic factors and dengue hemorrhagic fever and to develop the prediction approach of future dengue transmission. The study used totally monthly dengue hemorrhagic fever cases at Health Office Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Monthly meteorological data, consisting of temperature, rainfall, and humidity, was obtained from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency in Kendari district. All data analysis, including Spearman and Poisson distribution, was carried out in R Studio (version 3.3.2) utilizing the R statistical language version 2.15. The highest rate of dengue hemorrhagic fever cases was found in January, February, and March. Temperature averages at lag 2 (p = 0.53, p
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- 2017