An Innovative Database for Epidemiological Field Studies of Neglected Tropical Diseases 英文参考文献.docVIP

FromInnovationtoApplication AnInnovativeDatabaseforEpidemiologicalField StudiesofNeglectedTropicalDiseases DarrenJ.Gray1,2*,SimonJ.Forsyth2,RobertS.Li2,DonaldP.McManus1,YueShengLi3,HonggenChen4, FengZheng5,GailM.Williams2 1Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2The School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control on Schistosomiasis in Lake Region,Yueyang,People’sRepublicofChina,4JiangxiProvincialInstituteofParasiticDiseases,Nanchang,People’sRepublicofChina,5InstituteofParasiticDiseases, ChineseCentreforDiseaseControlandPrevention,Shanghai,People’sRepublicofChina Introduction miasis,ratherthanfortheevaluationofa complex epidemiological study, requiring expertise inthe principles andpractice of plex, required a database with numerous data entry forms, corresponding tables, andspecifiedinter-tablerelationships.The database incorporated a Microsoft Access frameworkwithVisualBasic(VBA)mod- ules and SQL scripts. To allow for gold standarddoubleentry[9],eachvillagehad twodatabasefiles,oneforeachofthefirst andseconddataentries. The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are of major public health importance, accounting for 56.6 million disability- adjusted life years (DALYs), which places themsixthoutofthetenleadingcausesof life years lost to disability and premature death[1].Thesediseasesareprominentin the developing world where there is low income, poor hygiene, and inadequate sanitation[1,2].Recenttargetingofthese diseases for large-scale control programs by the World Health Organization [3] is likely to increase the number of epidemi- ological field studies requiring valid and reliable data, in order to determine the mostappropriatestrategiesforcontrol. In order to ensure a control strategy is effectiveandappropriate,thedataneedto be of a high standard, and as a result,