SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DIFFUSION PATTERN AND HOTSPOT DETECTION OF DENGUE IN BANDAR BARU BANGI, SELANGOR, MALAYSIANuriah Abd Majid, Muhammad Rizal Razman, Sharifah Zarina Syed Zakaria, Nurafiqah Muhamad Nazi, Minhaz Farid Ahmed and Syaidatul Azwani ZulkafliAbstract In the last few decades, dengue fever has dramatically increased in Malaysia and has caused huge public health concerns. This article examines dengue epidemics spatial and temporal dynamics in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor State, Malaysia. The main aim of this study was to study spatial diffusion patterns and to identify the hotspots of dengue reported. The study utilized epidemiological data from the Malaysian Ministry of Health on dengue cases in 2015-2018. These details are analyzed and processed into GIS format. 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 dengue outbreak geospatial spread pattern has been investigated and mapped. The hotspot analysis is presented as points on a map and refers to dengue cases locations in the area studied. In 2015-2018, it measured statistics from Getis-Ord Gi for dengue cases. In the region of Bandar Baru in Bangi, with a cluster of high or low values, the associated Z- and p-values are displayed spatially. The chart has varied from -3 (cold spot -99% of confidence) to +3 (hotspots-99% of confidence) to establish the spatial distribution of dengue fever in Bandar Baru Bangi. In this report, persistent hotspot areas indicated that urbanization is one of the key reasons for the impact of dengue and the consequence would lead to reducing the effect within particular areas for the future. |