Objective Prevailling of food-borne diarrhea among residents in Hongkou District 2008 was analyzed in order to enforcing prevention.
Methods Total of 939 subjects from 5 neighborhood were chosed via stratified cluster sampling, and questionnaire with form designed by ourselves was conducted. The relationship between food-borne diarrhea and age, occupation, financial situation, time of eating out and restaurant circumstance were analyzed.
Results It was showed that 39.40% of 939 residents interviewed have had food-borne diarrhea in 2008. The incident rate of food-borne diarrhea showed no significant difference among different age groups (χ2=0.92, P>0.05). However, incident rate of food-borne diarrhea was statistically significant with occupation, financial situation, time of eating out, restaurant circumstance, and health status(χ2=17.09, 23.85, 12.02, 58.40, 13.55, respectively, P < 0.05).
Conclusion Food safety should be strengthened because of high incidence of food-borne diarrhea in Hongkou District. Furthermore, responding health inspection sector is recommended to reinforce supervision and management of catering industry to ensure food safety.
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