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Cleary E, Atuhaire F, Sorcihetta A, Ruktanonchai N, Ruktanonchai C, Cunningham A, Pasqui M, Schiavina M, Melchiorri M, Bondarenko M, Shepherd HER, Padmadas SS, Wesolowski A, Cummings DAT, Tatem AJ, Lai S. Comparing lagged impacts of mobility changes and environmental factors on COVID-19 waves in rural and urban India: a Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling study. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.06.12.24308871. [PMID: 38946988 PMCID: PMC11213100 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.12.24308871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
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Previous research in India has identified urbanisation, human mobility and population demographics as key variables associated with higher district level COVID-19 incidence. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of mobility patterns in rural and urban areas in India, in conjunction with other drivers of COVID-19 transmission, have not been fully investigated. We explored travel networks within India during two pandemic waves using aggregated and anonymized weekly human movement datasets obtained from Google, and quantified changes in mobility before and during the pandemic compared with the mean baseline mobility for the 8-week time period at the beginning of 2020. We fit Bayesian spatiotemporal hierarchical models coupled with distributed lag non-linear models (DLNM) within the integrated nested Laplace approximate (INLA) package in R to examine the lag-response associations of drivers of COVID-19 transmission in urban, suburban, and rural districts in India during two pandemic waves in 2020-2021. Model results demonstrate that recovery of mobility to 99% that of pre-pandemic levels was associated with an increase in relative risk of COVID-19 transmission during the Delta wave of transmission. This increased mobility, coupled with reduced stringency in public intervention policy and the emergence of the Delta variant, were the main contributors to the high COVID-19 transmission peak in India in April 2021. During both pandemic waves in India, reduction in human mobility, higher stringency of interventions, and climate factors (temperature and precipitation) had 2-week lag-response impacts on the R t of COVID-19 transmission, with variations in drivers of COVID-19 transmission observed across urban, rural and suburban areas. With the increased likelihood of emergent novel infections and disease outbreaks under a changing global climate, providing a framework for understanding the lagged impact of spatiotemporal drivers of infection transmission will be crucial for informing interventions.
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- Eimear Cleary
- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, USA
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- Institute for Bioeconomy, National Research Council of Italy (IBE-CNR), Rome, Italy
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, VA, Italy
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, VA, Italy
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- Department of Social Statistics & Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
- Department of Public Health & Mortality Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biology and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
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- WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK
- Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Yang Z, Li J, Li Y, Huang X, Zhang A, Lu Y, Zhao X, Yang X. The impact of urban spatial environment on COVID-19: a case study in Beijing. Front Public Health 2024; 11:1287999. [PMID: 38259769 PMCID: PMC10800729 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1287999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Epidemics are dangerous and difficult to prevent and control, especially in urban areas. Clarifying the correlation between the COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency and the urban spatial environment may help improve cities' ability to respond to such public health emergencies. In this study, we firstly analyzed the spatial distribution characteristics of COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency by correlating the geographic locations of COVID-19 epidemic-affected neighborhoods in the city of Beijing with the time point of onset. Secondly, we created a geographically weighted regression model combining the COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency with the external spatial environmental elements of the city. Thirdly, different grades of epidemic-affected neighborhoods in the study area were classified according to the clustering analysis results. Finally, the correlation between the COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency and the internal spatial environmental elements of different grades of neighborhoods was investigated using a binomial logistic regression model. The study yielded the following results. (i) Epidemic outbreak frequency was evidently correlated with the urban external spatial environment, among building density, volume ratio, density of commercial facilities, density of service facilities, and density of transportation facilities were positively correlated with COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency, while water and greenery coverage was negatively correlated with it. (ii) The correlation between COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency and the internal spatial environmental elements of neighborhoods of different grades differed. House price and the number of households were positively correlated with the COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency in low-end neighborhoods, while the number of households was positively correlated with the COVID-19 Outbreak Frequency in mid-end neighborhoods. In order to achieve spatial justice, society should strive to address the inequality phenomena of income gaps and residential differentiation, and promote fair distribution of spatial environments.
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- School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China
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Nojiri S, Kawakami Y, Nakamoto D, Kuroki M, Nishizaki Y. Case fatality rate considering the lag time from the onset of COVID-19 infection to related death from 2020 to 2022 in Japan. IJID REGIONS 2023; 8:36-48. [PMID: 37361016 PMCID: PMC10149354 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2023.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Importance On an ecological scale, the lag time between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and related fatality has varied between epidemic waves and prefectures in Japan. The variability in lag time across areas of Japan during the seven distinct waves can help derive a more appropriate estimation of the weekly confirmed case fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19. Objective To estimate the 7-day moving average CFR across area block levels in Japan from February 2020 to July 2022 using the lag time between COVID-19 infection and related fatality. Main outcomes and measures The 7-day moving average CFR of COVID-19 for area blocks in Japan considering the lag time between infection and death (total and subgroup analysis of elderly). Results Lag time was found to vary substantially among prefectures in Japan from the first wave to the seventh wave of the COVID-19 epidemic. The estimated 7-day moving average CFR based on the lag time reflects the Japanese COVID-19 pandemic and related policy interventions (e.g. vaccination of elderly people) rather than other standard CFR estimations. Conclusions and relevance The variation in estimated lag time across prefectures in Japan for different epidemic waves indicates that it is inadequate to use the clinical results of the period from the start of infection to death for evaluation of the ecological scale of the CFR. Moreover, the lag time between infection and related fatality was found to be either shorter or longer than the clinically reported period. This revealed that preliminary reports of CFR may be overestimated or underestimated, even if they consider the lag based on clinical reports.
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- Shuko Nojiri
- Clinical Translational Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Medical Technology Innovation Centre, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Clinical Translational Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Clinical Translational Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Clinical Translational Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Medical Education, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Albassam D, Nouh M, Hosoi A. The Effectiveness of Mobility Restrictions on Controlling the Spread of COVID-19 in a Resistant Population. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2023; 20:5343. [PMID: 37047958 PMCID: PMC10094504 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20075343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 03/05/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Human mobility plays an important role in the spread of COVID-19. Given this knowledge, countries implemented mobility-restricting policies. Concomitantly, as the pandemic progressed, population resistance to the virus increased via natural immunity and vaccination. We address the question: "What is the impact of mobility-restricting measures on a resistant population?" We consider two factors: different types of points of interest (POIs)-including transit stations, groceries and pharmacies, retail and recreation, workplaces, and parks-and the emergence of the Delta variant. We studied a group of 14 countries and estimated COVID-19 transmission based on the type of POI, the fraction of population resistance, and the presence of the Delta variant using a Pearson correlation between mobility and the growth rate of cases. We find that retail and recreation venues, transit stations, and workplaces are the POIs that benefit the most from mobility restrictions, mainly if the fraction of the population with resistance is below 25-30%. Groceries and pharmacies may benefit from mobility restrictions when the population resistance fraction is low, whereas in parks, there is little advantage to mobility-restricting measures. These results are consistent for both the original strain and the Delta variant; Omicron data were not included in this work.
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- Dina Albassam
- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia;
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- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia;
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- Institute for Data, System and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;
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Liu Y, Wang X, Song C, Chen J, Shu H, Wu M, Guo S, Huang Q, Pei T. Quantifying human mobility resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Beijing, China. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY 2023; 89:104314. [PMID: 36438675 PMCID: PMC9676079 DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2022.104314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Human mobility, as a fundamental requirement of everyday life, has been most directly impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing studies have revealed its ensuing changes. However, its resilience, which is defined as people's ability to resist such impact and maintain their normal mobility, still remains unclear. Such resilience reveals people's response capabilities to the pandemic and quantifying it can help us better understand the interplay between them. Herein, we introduced an integrated framework to quantify the resilience of human mobility to COVID-19 based on its change process. Taking Beijing as a case study, the resilience of different mobility characteristics among different population groups, and under different waves of COVID-19, were compared. Overall, the mobility range and diversity were found to be less resilient than decisions on whether to move. Females consistently exhibited lower resilience than males; middle-aged people exhibited the lowest resilience under the first wave of COVID-19 while older adult's resilience became the lowest during the COVID-19 rebound. With the refinement of pandemic-control measures, human mobility resilience was enhanced. These findings reveal heterogeneities and variations in people's response capabilities to the pandemic, which can help formulate targeted and flexible policies, and thereby promote sustainable and resilient urban management.
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- Yaxi Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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Novel indicator for the spread of new coronavirus disease 2019 and its association with human mobility in Japan. Sci Rep 2023; 13:115. [PMID: 36596837 PMCID: PMC9810243 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-27322-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The Japanese government adopted policies to control human mobility in 2020 to prevent the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The present study examined the impact of human mobility on COVID-19 cases at the prefectural level in Japan by devising an indicator to have a relationship between the number of infected people and on human mobility. We calculated origin-destination travel mobility within prefectures in Japan from March 1st to December 31st, 2020, using mobile phone data. A cross-correlation function (CCF) was used to examine the relationship between human mobility and a COVID-19 infection acceleration indicator (IAI), which represents the rate of change in the speed of COVID-19 infection. The CCF of intraprefectural human mobility and the IAI in Tokyo showed a maximum value of 0.440 at lag day 12, and the IAI could be used as an indicator to predict COVID-19 cases. Therefore, the IAI and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic were useful for predicting infection status. The number of COVID-19 cases was associated with human mobility at the prefectural level in Japan in 2020. Controlling human mobility could help control infectious diseases in a pandemic, especially prior to starting vaccination.
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Kato H, Takizawa A. Time series cross-correlation between home range and number of infected people during the COVID-19 pandemic in a suburban city. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0267335. [PMID: 36048758 PMCID: PMC9436136 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Control of human mobility is one of the most effective measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the imposition of emergency restrictions had significant negative impacts on citizens’ daily lives. As vaccination progresses, we need to consider more effective measures to control the spread of the infection. The research question of this study is as follows: Does the control of home range correlate with a reduction in the number of infected people during the COVID-19 pandemic? This study aims to clarify the correlation between home range and the number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ibaraki City. Home ranges are analyzed by the Minimum Convex Polygon method using mobile phone GPS location history data. We analyzed the time series cross-correlation between home range lengths and the number of infected people. Results reveal a slight positive correlation between home range and the number of infected people after one week during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regarding home range length, the cross-correlation coefficient is 0.4030 even at a lag level of six weeks, which has the most significant coefficient. Thus, a decrease in the home range is a weak factor correlated with a reduction in the number of infected people. This study makes a significant contribution to the literature by evaluating key public health challenges from the perspective of controliing the spread of the COVID-19 infectuion. Its findings has implications for policy makers, practitioners, and urban scientists seeking to promote urban sustainability.
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- Haruka Kato
- Department of Housing and Environmental Design, Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Housing and Environmental Design, Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan
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Double Effect of Urbanization on Vegetation Growth in China’s 35 Cities during 2000–2020. REMOTE SENSING 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/rs14143312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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In recent decades, the trade-off between urbanization and vegetation dynamics has broken the balance between human activities and social-economic dimensions. Our understanding towards the complex human–nature interactions, particularly the gradient of vegetation growth pattern across different city size, is still limited. Here, we selected 35 typical cities in China and classified them into five categories according to their resident population (e.g., megacities, megapolis, big cities, medium cities, and small cities). The spatial-temporal dynamics of vegetation growth for all 35 cities were inferred from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). We found that averaged NDVI for all cities slightly decreased during 2000 and 2020, at a rate of 1.6 × 10−4 per year. Most cities were characterized with relatively lower NDVI in urban areas than its surrounding area (determined by a series of buffer zones, i.e., 1–25 km outside of the city boundary). The percentage of greening pixels increased from urban area to the 25 km buffer zone at a rate of 4.7 × 10−4 per km. We noticed that negative impact of urbanization on vegetation growth reduced as the distance to urban area increased, with an exception for megacities (e.g., Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen). In megacities and megapolis, greening pixels were more concentrated at core urban area, implying that the positive urbanization effect on vegetation growth is much more apparent. We argue that urbanization in China might facilitate vegetation growth to a certain extent, for which an appropriate urban planning such as purposeful selection of city sizes could be a scientific guidance while targeting the city’s sustainable development goals in future.
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Ghaznavi C, Yoneoka D, Tanoue Y, Gilmour S, Kawashima T, Eguchi A, Kawamura Y, Miyata H, Nomura S. Inter-Prefectural Travel and Network Connectedness During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan. J Epidemiol 2022; 32:510-518. [PMID: 35781428 PMCID: PMC9551293 DOI: 10.2188/jea.je20220064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Increases in human mobility have been linked to rises in novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. The pandemic era in Japan has been characterized by changes in inter-prefectural mobility across state of emergency (SOE) declarations and travel campaigns, but they have yet to be characterized. Methods Using Yahoo Japan mobility data extracted from the smartphones of more than 10 million Japanese residents, we calculated the monthly number of inter-prefectural travel instances, stratified by residential prefecture and destination prefecture. We then used this adjacency matrix to calculate two network connectedness metrics, closeness centrality and effective distance, that reliably predict disease transmission. Results Inter-prefectural mobility and network connectedness decreased most considerably during the first SOE, but this decrease dampened with each successive SOE. Mobility and network connectedness increased during the Go To Travel campaign. Travel volume between distant prefectures decreased more than travel between prefectures with geographic proximity. Closeness centrality was found to be negatively correlated with the rate of COVID-19 infection across prefectures, with the strength of this association increasing in tandem with the infection rate. Changes in effective distance were more visible among geographically isolated prefectures (Hokkaido and Okinawa) than among metropolitan, central prefectures (Tokyo, Aichi, Osaka, and Fukuoka). Conclusion The magnitude of reductions in human mobility decreased with each subsequent state of emergency, consistent with pandemic fatigue. The association between network connectedness and rates of COVID-19 infection remained visible throughout the entirety of the pandemic period, suggesting that inter-prefectural mobility may have contributed to disease spread.
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- Cyrus Ghaznavi
- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Medical Education Program, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.,Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research.,Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Institute for Business and Finance, Waseda University
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- Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke's International University
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Keio University.,Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.,Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research
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Pagsuyoin SA, Salcedo G, Santos JR, Skinner CB. Pandemic wave trends in COVID-19 cases, mobility reduction, and climate parameters in major metropolitan areas in the United States. ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMS & DECISIONS 2022; 42:350-361. [PMID: 35730054 PMCID: PMC9192927 DOI: 10.1007/s10669-022-09865-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In this paper, we analyzed the association among trends in COVID-19 cases, climate, air quality, and mobility changes during the first and second waves of the pandemic in five major metropolitan counties in the United States: Maricopa in Arizona, Cook in Illinois, Los Angeles in California, Suffolk in Massachusetts, and New York County in New York. These areas represent a range of climate conditions, geographies, economies, and state-mandated social distancing restrictions. In the first wave of the pandemic, cases were correlated with humidity in Maricopa, and temperature in Maricopa and Los Angeles. In Suffolk and New York, cases were correlated with mobility changes in recreation, grocery, parks, and transit stations. Neither cases nor death counts were strongly correlated with air quality. Periodic fluctuations in mobility were observed for residential areas during weekends, resulting in stronger correlation coefficients when only weekday datasets were included in the analysis. We also analyzed case-mobility correlations when mobility days were lagged, and found that the strongest correlation in the first wave occurred between 12 and 14 lag days (optimal at 13 days). There was stronger but greater variability in correlation coefficients across metropolitan areas in the first pandemic wave than in the second wave, notably in recreation areas and parks. In the second wave, there was less variability in correlations over lagged time and geographic locations. Overall, we did not find conclusive evidence to support associations between lower cases and climate in all areas. Furthermore, the differences in cases-mobility correlation trends during the two pandemic waves are indicative of the effects of travel restrictions in the early phase of the pandemic and gradual return to travel routines in the later phase. This study highlights the utility of mobility data in understanding the dynamics of disease transmission. It also emphasizes the criticality of timeline and local context in interpreting transmission trends. Mobility data can capture community response to local travel restrictions at different phases of their implementation and provide insights on how these responses evolve over time alongside disease trends.
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- Sheree A. Pagsuyoin
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854 USA
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- Engineering Systems & Management Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC USA
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- Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA USA
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Yu H, Lao X, Gu H, Zhao Z, He H. Understanding the Geography of COVID-19 Case Fatality Rates in China: A Spatial Autoregressive Probit-Log Linear Hurdle Analysis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:751768. [PMID: 35242729 PMCID: PMC8885593 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.751768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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This study employs a spatial autoregressive probit-log linear (SAP-Log) hurdle model to investigate the influencing factors on the probability of death and case fatality rate (CFR) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the city level in China. The results demonstrate that the probability of death from COVID-19 and the CFR level are 2 different processes with different determinants. The number of confirmed cases and the number of doctors are closely associated with the death probability and CFR, and there exist differences in the CFR and its determinants between cities within Hubei Province and outside Hubei Province. The spatial probit model also presents positive spatial autocorrelation in death probabilities. It is worth noting that the medical resource sharing among cities and enjoyment of free medical treatment services of citizens makes China different from other countries. This study contributes to the growing literature on determinants of CFR with COVID-19 and has significant practical implications.
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- Hanchen Yu
- Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Xin Lao
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- Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Huang Q, Liu Q, Song C, Liu X, Shu H, Wang X, Liu Y, Chen X, Chen J, Pei T. Urban spatial epidemic simulation model: A case study of the second COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, China. TRANSACTIONS IN GIS : TG 2022; 26:297-316. [PMID: 34899033 PMCID: PMC8646780 DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The second COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing was controlled by non-pharmaceutical interventions, which avoided a second pandemic. Until mass vaccination achieves herd immunity, cities are at risk of similar outbreaks. It is vital to quantify and simulate Beijing's non-pharmaceutical interventions to find effective intervention policies for the second outbreak. Few models have achieved accurate intra-city spatio-temporal epidemic spread simulation, and most modeling studies focused on the initial pandemic. We built a dynamic module of infected case movement within the city, and established an urban spatially epidemic simulation model (USESM), using mobile phone signaling data to create scenarios to assess the impact of interventions. We found that: (1) USESM simulated the transmission process of the epidemic within Beijing; (2) USESM showed the epidemic curve and presented the spatial distribution of epidemic spread on a map; and (3) to balance resources, interventions, and economic development, nucleic acid testing intensity could be increased and restrictions on human mobility in non-epidemic areas eased.
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- Qiang Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and ControlCollaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious DiseasesWHO Collaborating Centre for Vector Surveillance and ManagementNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and PreventionChinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and ControlCollaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious DiseasesWHO Collaborating Centre for Vector Surveillance and ManagementNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and PreventionChinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information SystemInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and ApplicationNanjingChina
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Meng D, Xu J, Zhao J. Analysis and prediction of hand, foot and mouth disease incidence in China using Random Forest and XGBoost. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0261629. [PMID: 34936688 PMCID: PMC8694472 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is an increasingly serious public health problem, and it has caused an outbreak in China every year since 2008. Predicting the incidence of HFMD and analyzing its influential factors are of great significance to its prevention. Now, machine learning has shown advantages in infectious disease models, but there are few studies on HFMD incidence based on machine learning that cover all the provinces in mainland China. In this study, we proposed two different machine learning algorithms, Random Forest and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), to perform our analysis and prediction. We first used Random Forest to examine the association between HFMD incidence and potential influential factors for 31 provinces in mainland China. Next, we established Random Forest and XGBoost prediction models using meteorological and social factors as the predictors. Finally, we applied our prediction models in four different regions of mainland China and evaluated the performance of them. Our results show that: 1) Meteorological factors and social factors jointly affect the incidence of HFMD in mainland China. Average temperature and population density are the two most significant influential factors; 2) Population flux has different delayed effect in affecting HFMD incidence in different regions. From a national perspective, the model using population flux data delayed for one month has better prediction performance; 3) The prediction capability of XGBoost model was better than that of Random Forest model from the overall perspective. XGBoost model is more suitable for predicting the incidence of HFMD in mainland China.
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- Delin Meng
- Complexity Science Institute, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Complexity Science Institute, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China
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Clouston SAP, Morozova O, Meliker JR. A wind speed threshold for increased outdoor transmission of coronavirus: an ecological study. BMC Infect Dis 2021; 21:1194. [PMID: 34837983 PMCID: PMC8626759 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-021-06796-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To examine whether outdoor transmission may contribute to the COVID-19 epidemic, we hypothesized that slower outdoor wind speed is associated with increased risk of transmission when individuals socialize outside. METHODS Daily COVID-19 incidence reported in Suffolk County, NY, between March 16th and December 31st, 2020, was the outcome. Average wind speed and maximal daily temperature were collated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Negative binomial regression was used to model incidence rates while adjusting for susceptible population size. RESULTS Cases were very high in the initial wave but diminished once lockdown procedures were enacted. Most days between May 1st, 2020, and October 24th, 2020, had temperatures 16-28 °C and wind speed diminished slowly over the year and began to increase again in December 2020. Unadjusted and multivariable-adjusted analyses revealed that days with temperatures ranging between 16 and 28 °C where wind speed was < 8.85 km per hour (KPH) had increased COVID-19 incidence (aIRR = 1.45, 95% C.I. = [1.28-1.64], P < 0.001) as compared to days with average wind speed ≥ 8.85 KPH. CONCLUSION Throughout the U.S. epidemic, the role of outdoor shared spaces such as parks and beaches has been a topic of considerable interest. This study suggests that outdoor transmission of COVID-19 may occur by noting that the risk of transmission of COVID-19 in the summer was higher on days with low wind speed. Outdoor use of increased physical distance between individuals, improved air circulation, and use of masks may be helpful in some outdoor environments where airflow is limited.
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- Sean A P Clouston
- Program in Public Health, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, #3-071, Nichols Rd., Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8338, USA.
- Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
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- Program in Public Health, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, #3-071, Nichols Rd., Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8338, USA
- Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Program in Public Health, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, #3-071, Nichols Rd., Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8338, USA
- Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Liu Y, Pei T, Song C, Chen J, Chen X, Huang Q, Wang X, Shu H, Wang X, Guo S, Zhou C. How did human dwelling and working intensity change over different stages of COVID-19 in Beijing? SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY 2021; 74:103206. [PMID: 36567859 PMCID: PMC9760192 DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human daily activities significantly. Understanding the nature, causes, and extent of these changes is essential to evaluate the pandemic's influence on commerce, transportation, employment, and environment, among others. However, existing studies mainly focus on changes to general human mobility patterns; few have investigated changes in specific human daily activities. Based on one-year longitudinal mobile phone positioning data for more than 31 million users in Beijing, we tracked intensity changes in two basic human daily activities, dwelling and working, over the stages of COVID-19. The results show that during COVID-19 outbreak, human working intensity decreased about 60% citywide, while dwelling intensity decreased about 40% in some work and education areas. After COVID-19 was under control, intensity in most regions has recovered, but that in schools, hotels, entertainment venues, and tourism areas has not. These intensity changes at regional scale are due to behavior changes at individual scale: about 43% of residents left Beijing before COVID-19, while only 16% have returned back; all commuters decreased their commuting times during COVID-19, while only 75% have reverted to normal. The findings reveal variations in human activities caused by COVID-19 that can support targeted urban management in the post-epidemic era.
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- Yaxi Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Zhang J, Zhang R, Ding H, Li S, Liu R, Ma S, Zhai B, Kashima S, Hayashi Y. Effects of transport-related COVID-19 policy measures: A case study of six developed countries. TRANSPORT POLICY 2021; 110:37-57. [PMID: 34608358 PMCID: PMC8481159 DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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This study attempts to provide scientifically-sound evidence for designing more effective COVID-19 policies in the transport and public health sectors by comparing 418 policy measures (244 are transport measures) taken in different months of 2020 in Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The effectiveness of each policy is measured using nine indicators of infections and mobilities corresponding to three periods (i.e., one week, two weeks, and one month) before and after policy implementation. All policy measures are categorized based on the PASS approach (P: prepare-protect-provide; A: avoid-adjust; S: shift-share; S: substitute-stop). First, policy effectiveness is compared between policies, between countries, and over time. Second, a dynamic Bayesian multilevel generalized structural equation model is developed to represent dynamic cause-effect relationships between policymaking, its influencing factors and its consequences, within a unified research framework. Third, major policy measures in the six countries are compared. Finally, findings for policymakers are summarized and extensively discussed.
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- Junyi Zhang
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
- College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, China; Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan
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- Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City, Chubu University, Japan
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Ning J, Chu Y, Liu X, Zhang D, Zhang J, Li W, Zhang H. Spatio-temporal characteristics and control strategies in the early period of COVID-19 spread: a case study of the mainland China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 28:48298-48311. [PMID: 33904137 PMCID: PMC8075720 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14092-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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COVID-19 has caused huge impacts on human health and the economic operation of the world. Analyzing and summarizing the early propagation law can help reduce the losses caused by public health emergencies in the future. Early data on the spread of COVID-19 in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) of mainland China except for Hubei, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan were selected in this study. Spatio-temporal analysis, inflection point analysis, and correlation analysis are used to explore the spatio-temporal characteristics in the early COVID-19 spread. The results suggested that (1) the total confirmed cases have risen in an "S"-shaped curve over time, and the daily new cases have first increased and finally decreased; (2) the spatial distributions of both total and daily new cases show a trend of more in the east and less in the west, with a "multi-center agglomeration distribution" around Hubei Province and some major cities; (3) the spatial agglomeration of total confirmed cases has been increasing over time, while that of the daily new cases shows much more obvious in the mid-stage; and (4) timely release of the first-level public health emergency response can accelerate the emergence of the epidemic inflection point. The above analysis results have a specific reference value for the government's policy-making and measures to face public health emergencies.
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- Jiachen Ning
- College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
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- School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China
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- The school of Environmental Science and Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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Benita F. Human mobility behavior in COVID-19: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY 2021; 70:102916. [PMID: 35720981 PMCID: PMC9187318 DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.102916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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This article maps the scientific literature in human mobility behavior in the context of the current pandemic. Through bibliometrics, we analyze the content of published scientific studies indexed on the Web of Science and Scopus during 2020. This enables us the detection of current hotspots and future directions of research. After a co-occurrence of keywords and evidence map analysis, four themes are identified, namely, Land Transport - Operations, Land Transport - Traffic Demand, Air Transport and Environment. We show how air transportation- and environmental-related studies tend to be more mature research whereas the understanding of changes in travel behavior (e.g., telecommuting, preventive measures or health protection behavior) tends to be immature. By using a topic modeling approach, we identify multiple sub-themes within each theme. Our framework adopts a smart literature review approach that can be constantly updated, enabling an analysis of many articles, with little investment of the researcher's time, but also provides high degree of transparency and replicability. We also put forth a research agenda that can help inform and shape transport policy and practice responses to COVID-19.
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- Francisco Benita
- Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 8 Somapah Road, 487372, Singapore
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