An International Comparative Study on the Resilience of Urban Communities after COVID-19 Pandemic: A One-Year Case Study between Lanzhou, China and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

After the prevailing of the COVID-19 pandemic, urban communities around the world took initiatives to bring their cities back to life. In this research, 45 indicators and 55 elements were selected to make comparisons between urban communities in Lanzhou, China and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina from five dimensions of social resilience, economic resilience, institutional resilience, infrastructural resilience, and community capital resilience. At the same time, the ArcGIS platform tool was used for spatial interpolation analysis. In this paper, the inverse distance weighting (IDW) method was used to carry out the spatial analysis of the perceived resilience of the two cities. Due to the heterogeneity of the neighborhood physical environment, operation and management mode, individual attribute characteristics, and internal relations, the resilience of the two urban communities showed disparity in different dimensions. Overall, the communities with good urban property management services, high-income owners, and the convenient transportation have stronger resilience in the face of pandemic. On the contrary, scattered communities, which are scattered in the inner cities, lack effective management, and based on unstable employment, people become the most affected by the epidemic with the lowest resilience power. The importance of social capital, represented by community understanding, identity, and mutual help and cooperation between neighbors, is highlighted in the resilience assessment of the two cities, respectively, in the East and West, indicating that to build more resilient cities, in addition to improving government management and increasing investment in urban infrastructure, building the residents’ sense of belonging, identity, and enduring community culture is even more important in the construction of resilient cities.

The impact of community resilience, well-being, and community attachment on human service workers’ burnout

“…This appears to be quite relevant when considering that community resilience can be strengthened in many ways, thus improving the HSWs' and the communities' well-being in case of collective crises. Namely, the existence of social capital (Niu et al, 2022), community engagement (Pfefferbaum et al, 2016), or even the development of coproduction strategies in the community to include the voice of the people as part of the process (Davis et al, 2021). It is well known that cultural dimensions can inform specific paths for community resilience, as they influence how people perceive, respond to, and define any crisis or risks (Nuryanti et al, 2022).…”

Health Management Service Models for the Elderly with Visual Impairment: A Scoping Review

“…69 , 70 Through cooperation with hospitals and community organizations, the current low vision model tries to provide services that conform to the people-oriented nursing principle to the greatest extent. 71 This model combines the advantages of general hospitals and community hospitals, which can significantly alleviate the burden of diagnosis and treatment in general hospitals, reduce the waste of medical resources and the loss of staff in grass-roots hospitals, 72 and greatly promote compliance behavior, emotion and QoL of cataract patients in communities. 73 Based on community service, combined treatment for patients and focusing on health education can significantly reduce medical expenses and strengthen patient compliance.…”

Health management service models for the elderly with visual impairment ： a scoping review

“…Through cooperation with hospitals and community organizations, the current low vision model tries to provide services that conform to the people-oriented nursing principle to the greatest extent [70]. This model combines the advantages of general hospitals and community hospitals, which can signi cantly alleviate the burden of diagnosis and treatment in general hospitals, reduce the waste of medical resources and the loss of staff in grass-roots hospitals [71], and greatly promote compliance behavior, emotion and QoL of cataract patients in communities [72]. Based on community service, combined treatment for patients and focusing on health education can signi cantly reduce medical expenses and strengthen patient compliance.…”