Transport geography: Implications for public health

Amer, Sherif; Bergquist, Robert

doi:10.4081/gh.2021.1009

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“…The study of the factors influencing public health discuss the effect of the climate (Qiu et al, 2020), transport (Amer & Bergquist, 2021), economic development and urbanization (Black & Black, 2009), the level of education and income (Wang, 2014), accessibility of medical and health resources (Shaltynov et al, 2022) and public health expenditures (Sunhee & Wang, 2019). Li (2002) point to the impact of health policies, health technologies and health inputs and argue that public health has different degrees of facilitating and constraining effects on socio-economic development.…”

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Aspects of public health development in China’s western region

Zhang,

Luo,

Chen

et al. 2024

Geospat Health

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The public health level in a country is closely related to national development and quality of life. In order to appraise the level of health services in the western region of China, panel data of 124 prefecture-level units covering the period 2011 to 2021 was used together with a health evaluation index system based on four dimensions: quality of life, environmental situation, the level of health services and longevity. To assess this, we used entropy weights, standard deviation and coefficient of variation together with the geographical detector model that measures the stratified spatial heterogeneity. The results show that although public health services have improved overall, the various dimensions are still not balanced as longevity did not match up everywhere. While the developmental level of the various health dimensions presents a pattern of a relatively smooth increasing gradient in the west-central- east direction, the situation with respect to the north-centralsouth is more uneven with both ups and downs. However, a trend of continuous enhancement of all health dimensions was found with a significant positive correlation of spatial clustering, with hotspots and ‘sub-hotspots’ contracting from north to south, while coldspots and ‘sub-coldspots’ expanded from west to east. This can be seen as the result of multiple factors, with the level of urbanization and economic level as the dominant factors and government guidance, agglomeration capacity and industrial structure being auxiliary.

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Aspects of public health development in China’s western region

Zhang,

Luo,

Chen

et al. 2024

Geospat Health

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“…Moreover, Gatto et al, 2020 , Amer and Bergquist, 2021 proposed a spatially explicit epidemiological model, mentioning the link between the radiation of the epidemic along transport network. Paez et al (2021) carried out a spatio-temporal analysis in Spain and put in evidence GDP per capita and presence of mass transit systems affect the incidence of COVID-19.…”

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Spatio-temporal distribution pattern of COVID-19 in the Northern Italy during the first-wave scenario: The role of the highway network

Angelis

Durastanti

Giovannoni

et al. 2022

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Geography and health: role of human translocation and access to care

Brattig,

Bergquist,

Vienneau

et al. 2024

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Natural, geographical barriers have historically limited the spread of communicable diseases. This is no longer the case in today’s interconnected world, paired with its unprecedented environmental and climate change, emphasising the intersection of evolutionary biology, epidemiology and geography (i.e. biogeography). A total of 14 articles of the special issue entitled “Geography and health: role of human translocation and access to care” document enhanced disease transmission of diseases, such as malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, COVID-19 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona 2) and Oropouche fever in spite of spatiotemporal surveillance. High-resolution satellite images can be used to understand spatial distributions of transmission risks and disease spread and to highlight the major avenue increasing the incidence and geographic range of zoonoses represented by spill-over transmission of coronaviruses from bats to pigs or civets. Climate change and globalization have increased the spread and establishment of invasive mosquitoes in non-tropical areas leading to emerging outbreaks of infections warranting improved physical, chemical and biological vector control strategies. The translocation of pathogens and their vectors is closely connected with human mobility, migration and the global transport of goods. Other contributing factors are deforestation with urbanization encroaching into wildlife zones. The destruction of natural ecosystems, coupled with low income and socioeconomic status, increase transmission probability of neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases. The articles in this special issue document emerging or re-emerging diseases and surveillance of fever symptoms. Health equity is intricately connected to accessibility to health care and the targeting of healthcare resources, necessitating a spatial approach. Public health comprises successful disease management integrating spatial surveillance systems, including access to sanitation facilities. Antimicrobial resistance caused, e.g. by increased use of antibiotics in health, agriculture and aquaculture, or acquisition of resistance genes, can be spread by horizontal gene transfer. This editorial reviews the key findings of this 14-article special issue, identifies important gaps relevant to our interconnected world and makes a number of specific recommendations to mitigate the transmission risks of infectious diseases in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.

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Transport geography: Implications for public health

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Aspects of public health development in China’s western region

Aspects of public health development in China’s western region

Spatio-temporal distribution pattern of COVID-19 in the Northern Italy during the first-wave scenario: The role of the highway network

Geography and health: role of human translocation and access to care

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