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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (1): 80-87.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2019.01.017

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Study on the relationship between the implementation of pulmonary tuberculosis control objective and the social determinants in China

Man-hui ZHANG,Jian-jun LIU(),Hong-yan YAO,Qi-qi WANG,Jin-fang SUN,Shi-cheng YU,Hui ZHANG   

  1. Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
  • Received:2018-10-17 Online:2019-01-10 Published:2019-01-09

Abstract:

Objective To estimate the difficulty of pulmonary tuberculosis prevention and control objective implementation in various parts of China (excluding Chinese Taipei, Hongkong China and Macao China) and analyze its related factors.Methods Based on the reported incidence data of PTB in provinces and related social and economic indicators (including per capita GDP, registered unemployment rate in cities and towns, forest coverage rate, rural population proportion, child dependency ratio, elderly dependency ratio, illiteracy ratio, sex ratio, number of beds in health care institutions per 1000 persons, number of medical technical personnel in health care institutions per 1000 persons, per capita water consumption) from 2004 to 2016, standardized incidence ratio was used to estimate the difficulty of PTB control objective implementation in different regions in China. The related factors were discussed by using multi-level random intercept model.Results Over time, the distance between the incidence of PTB and the planning goals in 28 areas of China has gradually narrowed (between 0.39 and 2.49, year 2016). The gap between the incidence of PTB and planning objectives in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (SIR=3.38, year 2016), Tibet Autonomous Region (SIR=2.89, year 2016), Qinghai Province (SIR=2.36, year 2016), Guizhou Province (SIR=2.49, year 2016) is still large. In space, the farther distance changed from generally to individually, and the overall performance was farther in the west than in the east. The results of multi-level random intercept model revealed that there was a correlation between the control objective and per capita GDP (β=-0.055, t=-6.74), forest cover rate between 17.70% and 38.40% (β=-0.035, t=-2.05), forest cover rate >38.40% (β=-0.059, t=-2.08), illiteracy ratio >8.14% (β=0.048, t=3.41), per capita water consumption >520.70 m 3/person (β=-0.060, t=-2.33), the proportion of rural population (β=0.112, t=6.57; all P<0.05). Conclusion The distance between incidence and control planning of PTB is shortened, although it is still difficult for individual regions to achieve the planning objectives. The distance of tuberculosis control objective is negatively correlated with per capita GDP, per capita water consumption and forest coverage, and positively correlated with the proportion of rural population and illiteracy.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Models, theoretical, Communicable disease control, Epidemiologic studies