Regional transport and its association with tuberculosis in the Shandong province of China, 2009–2011》.pdf

Journal of Transport Geography 46 (2015) 232–243 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Transport Geography journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/jtrangeo Regional transport and its association with tuberculosis in the Shandong province of China, 2009–2011 Erjia Ge a, Poh-Chin Lai b,⇑, Xiulei Zhang c, Xiaohuan Yang d, Xuezheng Li e, Haiying Wang e, Xiaolin Wei a aJockey Club School of Public Health Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China b Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China c Shandong Provincial TB Program, Shandong Chest Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, China d State Key Laboratory of Resources Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Science Natural Resources Research, The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China e Katharine Hsue International Research Center of Human Infectious Diseases, Shandong Chest Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Human mobility has played a major role in the spread of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) Received 2 January 2015 through transportation; however, its pattern and mechanism have remained unclear. This study used Revised 20 June 2015 transport networks as a proxy for human mobility to generate the spatial process of TB incidence. It Accepted 22 June 2015 examined the association between TB incidence and four types of transport networks at the provincial Av