title: Socio-economic factors of bacillary dysentery based on spatial correlation analysis in Guangxi Province, China.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the past decade, bacillary dysentery was still a big public health problem in China, especially in Guangxi Province, where thousands of severe diarrhea cases occur every year.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reported bacillary dysentery cases in Guangxi Province were obtained from local Centers for Diseases Prevention and Control. The 14 socio-economic indexes were selected as potential explanatory variables for the study. The spatial correlation analysis was used to explore the associations between the selected factors and bacillary dysentery incidence at county level, which was based on the software of ArcGIS10.2 and GeoDA 0.9.5i.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The proportion of primary industry, the proportion of younger than 5-year-old children in total population, the number of hospitals per thousand persons and the rates of bacillary dysentery incidence show statistically significant positive correlation. But the proportion of secondary industry, per capital GDP, per capital government revenue, rural population proportion, popularization rate of tap water in rural area, access rate to the sanitation toilets in rural, number of beds in hospitals per thousand persons, medical and technical personnel per thousand persons and the rate of bacillary dysentery incidence show statistically significant negative correlation. The socio-economic factors can be divided into four aspects, including economic development, health development, medical development and human own condition. The four aspects were not isolated from each other, but interacted with each other.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Administration and Policy, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Chengjing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hairong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Linsheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Health and Endemic Disease Prevention, Guangxi Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanning, Guangxi.
authors.forename: Gemei
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D062206:Spatial Analysis