Short-term effects of rainfall on childhood hand foot and mouth disease and related spatial heterogeneity: evidence from 143 cities in mainland China

摘要

Spatial and temporal distributions of clinical HFMD incidences and cumulative rainfall for the 143 cities in mainland China from 2009 to 2014 (Source of map: ArcGIS Pro software). a Spatial distribution of annual clinical HFMD incidences. b Temporal distribution of daily incidences of clinical HFMD cases. c Spatial distribution of annual cumulative rainfall. d Temporal distribution of daily cumulative rainfall. For the sub-figure b and d, we used the average mean of daily incidence of HFMD and daily cumulative rainfall among the 143 cities for the sake of simplicity. All the map sources were provided by the ArcGIS Pro software