Evaluation of health education interventions on Chinese factory workers' knowledge, practices, and behaviors related to infectious disease.

Background: Workplaces are a common location for infectious disease transmission among adults. To provide recommendations regarding appropriate health promotion programs, we evaluated the impact of three different interventions on factory workers.

Methods: In a prospective intervention study carried out from October 2012 to June 2013, three factories were selected and each was assigned a different intervention method (i.

Detection of Viruses and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Hospitalized Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in Northern China, 2015-2016.

Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) presents a huge disease and economic burden worldwide. The present study described the frequency and types of different infectious etiologies among hospitalized patients with SARI in Tianjin, China, during 2015 and 2016. Basic information, in addition to a throat or serum sample, was collected from SARI patients.

Outbreak detection and evaluation of a school-based influenza-like-illness syndromic surveillance in Tianjin, China.

School-based influenza-like-illness (ILI) syndromic surveillance can be an important part of influenza community surveillance by providing early warnings for outbreaks and leading to a fast response. From September 2012 to December 2014, syndromic surveillance of ILI was carried out in 4 county-level schools. The cumulative sum methods(CUSUM) was used to detect abnormal signals.

Influenza vaccination of adults with and without high-risk health conditions in China.

Background: The World Health Organization recommends the elderly and persons with certain chronic diseases to receive an annual influenza vaccine and to be prioritized for immunization against pandemic influenza, because they are at greater risk for health complications. This paper aims to compare influenza vaccination coverage between adults in China with and without high-risk health conditions.

Methods: Data were from the cross-sectional China General Social Survey, 2010.

Influenza surveillance and incidence in a rural area in China during the 2009/2010 influenza pandemic.

Background: Most influenza surveillance is based on data from urban sentinel hospitals; little is known about influenza activity in rural communities. We conducted influenza surveillance in a rural region of China with the aim of detecting influenza activity in the 2009/2010 influenza season.

Methods: The study was conducted from October 2009 to March 2010.

Effectiveness of 10-year vaccination (2001-2010) on Hepatitis A in Tianjin, China.

Vaccination is an effective strategy to prevent and control the transmission of hepatitis A. Hepatitis A immunization program has been taken into effect since 2001 in Tianjin, China. This study evaluated the effectiveness of strategies in the prevention and control of hepatitis A.

A community outbreak of rotavirus diarrhea associated with exposures in a hospital outpatient department in South China.

Introduction: Between October 1 and December 10, 2006, Bao'an, China had a 5-fold increase in acute rotavirus gastroenteritis (ARGE) cases compared with the same time in 2005. To identify the risk factors for ARGE during this outbreak, we conducted a case-control study among children ≤ 24 months old from the most heavily affected area.

Methods: We defined an ARGE case as diarrhea, with group A rotavirus antigen detected from fecal samples by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test.