Abstract
Wuhan encountered a serious attack in the first round of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has resulted in a public health social impact, including public mental health. Based on the Weibo help data, we inferred the spatial distribution pattern of the epidemic situation and its impacts. Seven urban factors, i.e., urban growth, general hospital, commercial facilities, subway station, land-use mixture, aging ratio, and road density, were selected for validation with the ordinary linear model, in which the former six factors presented a globally significant association with epidemic severity. Then, the geographically weighted regression model (GWR) was adopted to identify their unevenly distributed effects in the urban space. Among the six factors, the distribution and density of major hospitals exerted significant effects on epidemic situation. Commercial facilities appear to be the most prevalently distributed significant factor on epidemic situation over the city. Urban growth, in particular the newly developed residential quarters with high-rise buildings around the waterfront area of Hanyang and Wuchang, face greater risk of the distribution. The influence of subway stations concentrates at the adjacency place where the three towns meet and some near-terminal locations. The aging ratio of the community dominantly affects the hinterland of Hankou to a broader extent than other areas in the city. Upon discovering the result, a series of managerial implications that coordinate various urban factors were proposed. This research may contribute toward developing specific planning and design responses for different areas in the city based on a better understanding of the occurrence, transmission, and diffusion of the COVID-19 epidemic in the metropolitan area.
Highlights
In the new era of the 21st century, despite great progress in medical technology, vaccination programs, and public health systems [1], severely infectious diseases, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV 2002), the novel swine-origin influenza-A virus (H1N1 2009), and the middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV 2012), have never disappeared but evolved into novel ones and caused a series of public health consequences, which have demonstrated that infectious events could develop rapidly to interfere with the social order and even threaten global stability [2,3,4].Int
Wuhan encountered a serious attack in the first round of the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in a public health social impact, including public mental health [32]
Weibo data to infer the spatial pattern of the COVID-19 distribution of early stage in Wuhan city
Summary
In the new era of the 21st century, despite great progress in medical technology, vaccination programs, and public health systems [1], severely infectious diseases, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV 2002), the novel swine-origin influenza-A virus (H1N1 2009), and the middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV 2012), have never disappeared but evolved into novel ones and caused a series of public health consequences, which have demonstrated that infectious events could develop rapidly to interfere with the social order and even threaten global stability [2,3,4]. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6712; doi:10.3390/ijerph17186712 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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