Publications by authors named "Senlu Wang"
Objective: To analyze the effectiveness of the "Xinjiang Model" for tuberculosis prevention and control in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, and to explore the determinants of the policy implementation effect.
Methods: The registration data of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients in Kashgar Prefecture from 2012 to 2021 were collected to describe the temporal trend of registered incidence. A questionnaire survey was conducted among PTB patients registered and treated in the tuberculosis management information system in Zepu and Shache Counties from January 2022 to July 2023 to collect and analyze "Xinjiang model" determinants of effectiveness.
Background: With the rapid advancement of the One Health approach, the transmission of human infectious diseases is generally related to environmental and animal health. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been largely impacted by environmental factors regionally and globally and has significantly disrupted human society, especially in low-income regions that border many countries. However, few research studies have explored the impact of environmental factors on disease transmission in these regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntervention Effect of New Tuberculosis Control Model on Tuberculosis Incidence in Xinjiang.
Infect Drug Resist
December 2023
Objective: To quantitatively evaluate the intervention effect of the "Xinjiang model" policy on pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) incidence in Xinjiang, and to compare the difference of policy effect between areas with different tuberculosis burdens.
Methods: We retrospectively collected data on the registered incidence of PTB patients in 14 prefectures of Xinjiang from January 2012 to December 2021 and used Joinpoint model to describe the time trend of registered incidence, single-group interrupted time series (ITS) model to analyze the dynamics of registered incidence before and after the policy intervention, and controlled interrupted time series (CITS) model to compare the differences in the effects of the policy in different tuberculosis burdened areas.
Results: The areas with high registered incidence of PTB in Xinjiang were mainly located in the four prefectures of southern Xinjiang.
What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important cause of death from a single infectious agent, and China has a high TB burden. Although the reported incidence of TB in students is lower than that in general population, TB outbreaks in schools have continuously been reported in the past years, suggesting that schools are a high-risk setting for TB transmission.
What Is Added By This Report?: In total, 31 TB patients were founded in students.