Estimating relative risk for dengue disease in Peninsular Malaysia using INLA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/mjfas.v0n0.575Keywords:
Spatio-temporal analysis, Disease mapping, Bayesian estimation, GLMM, INLAAbstract
Study in spatio-temporal disease mapping models give a great worth in epidemiology, in describing the pattern of disease incidence across geographical space and time. This paper studies generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) for the analysis of spatial and temporal variability of dengue disease rates. For spatio-temporal study, the models accommodate spatially correlated random effects as well as temporal effects together with the space time interaction. The space time interaction is used to capture any additional effects that are not explained by the main factors of space and time. However, as study including time dimension is quite complex for disease mapping, the temporal effects that only relate to structured and unstructured time pattern are considered in these models as initial screening in studying disease pattern and time trend. The models are fitted within a hierarchical Bayesian framework using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) methodology. For this study, there are three main objectives. First, to choose the best model that represent the disease phenomenon. Second, to estimate the relative risk of disease based on the model selected and lastly, to visualize the risk spatial pattern and temporal trend using graphical representation. The models are applied to monthly dengue fever data in Peninsular Malaysia reported to Ministry of Health Malaysia for year 2015 by district level.References
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