Disease burden of echinococcosis in Tibetan communities-a significant public health issue in an underdeveloped region of western China.

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2019
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Abstract
Echinococcosis is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a neglected zoonotic disease in the world. Some Tibetan communities were found to be highly endemic for echinococcosis just 20 years ago. Until recently, we were able to understand the overall disease burden of echinococcosis in Tibetan communities after prevalence data being available from nationwide investigations from 2012 to 2016. Data were abstracted from 9 publications regarding to echinococcosis prevalence between 2016-2018; from 10 data bases on echinococcosis prevalence for 151 Tibetan counties; and statistics of population, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and health staff from 44 local statistic bureaus and government websites at provincial, prefecture and county level, and 2 books of provincial yearly statistics. These data were used to estimate the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) due to cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE). The distribution of DALYs was presented geographically and economically. The echinococcosis DALYs in the Tibetan communities were estimated to be 126,159 (95%UI 122,415-137,675) annually using the method recommended by WHO. Echinococcosis affects people more in underdeveloped areas. There was a tendency that a higher echinococcosis DALYs were usually correlated a higher altitude. Health services are also poorly provided in terms of number of health staff of 5.05 per 1,000 population in comparison with the national average of 5.8 per 1,000 population. The data suggest that the echinococcosis burden in the center region of Qinghai-Tibet plateau is higher than that of other regions, and consequently more control and health services should be provided to the region.
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Authors Wang, Qian;Yang, Liu;Wang, Yifei;Zhang, Guang-Jia;Zhong, Bo;Wu, Wei-Ping;Zheng, Can-Jun;Liao, Sha;Yu, Wen-Jie;He, Wei;Wang, Qi;Chen, Fan;Li, Rui-Rui;Huang, Yan;Yao, Renxin;Zhou, Xiao-Nong;
Journal Acta tropica
Year 2019
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S0001-706X(18)30731-9
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Keywords
disease burden dalys echinococcosis tibetan communities

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