Abstract
Urban green space has been proven effective in improving public health in the contemporary background of planetary urbanization. There is a growing body of literature investigating the relationship between non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and green space, whereas seldom has the correlation been explored between green space and epidemics, such as dysentery, tuberculosis, and malaria, which still threaten the worldwide situation of public health. Meanwhile, most studies explored healthy issues with the general green space, public green space, and green space coverage, respectively, among which the different relevance has been rarely explored. This study aimed to examine and compare the relevance between these three kinds of green space and incidences of the three types of epidemic diseases based on the Panel Data Model (PDM) with the time series data of 31 Chinese provinces from 2007 to 2016. The results indicated that there exists different, or even opposite, relevance between various kinds of green space and epidemic diseases, which might be associated with the process of urban sprawl in rapid urbanization in China. This paper provides a reference for re-thinking the indices of green space in building healthier and greener cities.
Highlights
Humans are facing health challenges due to congested spaces and polluted environments within the contemporary process of planetary urbanization [1]
It was found that all kinds of green spaces expanded, and the mean logarithm value of Green Space and Public Green Space correspondingly increased from 5.56 to 8.98 and 1.08 to 2.10, and the mean green space coverage ratio increased from
The main contribution of this paper is that we explored the different relations between epidemics and the three kinds of green space, which had rarely been explored and compared together
Summary
Humans are facing health challenges due to congested spaces and polluted environments within the contemporary process of planetary urbanization [1]. There is a growing body of literature investigating the relation between green space and NCDs, such as mental illness [4,5,6,7], asthma and allergies [8,9,10], stress restoration [11], focusing on the capability of improving environmental quality [12,13], stimulating physical activities [14,15,16], and encouraging social integration in communities [17,18]. The persistence and re-emergence of epidemics in recent decades have been associated with the process of global urbanization, which has been reshaping the environmental, economic, and demographic system [27].
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