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Management of and Revitalization Strategy for Megacities Under Major Public Health Emergencies: A Case Study of Wuhan

Xianguo Wu, Bin Chen, Hongyu Chen, Zongbao Feng, Yun Zhang, Yang Liu
2022 Frontiers in Public Health  
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 has meant an uphill battle for city management.  ...  Therefore, we chose Wuhan for a case study to examine five essential modules of urban management relevant to addressing the pandemic: (1) the medical and health system, (2) lifeline engineering and infrastructure  ...  COVID-19 AND URBAN GOVERNANCE Many studies on the pandemic and cities have been conducted, focusing on multiple topics, and these studies provide valuable ideas regarding management and urban revitalization  ... 
doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.797775 pmid:35155351 pmcid:PMC8829135 fatcat:tzgwfhjdqfgavigfvsgo4edz4u

Urban Intelligence for Pandemic Response: Viewpoint

Lai Yuan, Wesley Yeung, Leo Anthony Celi
2020 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance  
Reflecting on the COVID-19 outbreak that was first identified in Wuhan, China, we discuss the opportunities, technical challenges, and foreseeable controversies for deploying urban intelligence during  ...  a pandemic.  ...  The unfolding of the current coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) pandemic has drawn significant global attention.  ... 
doi:10.2196/18873 pmid:32248145 pmcid:PMC7159057 fatcat:ja3o3clxbrf3xg3lgniya4lrgq

Resilient urban form to pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19

Azadeh Lak, Shideh Shakouri Asl, Ali Maher
2020 Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran  
According to the lessons of the COVID-19 outbreak, this study aimed to review the current strategies of responding to pandemics through disaster risk management (DRM) to develop a pandemic-resilient urban  ...  Methods: The research method is developed through desk study was used to explore the current literature of urban form responded to COVID-19 pandemic and for the text analysis; qualitative content analysis  ...  Also, quantitative and field studies could lead to the exploration of the association between the features of resilient cities that have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and disease transmission.  ... 
doi:10.34171/mjiri.34.71 pmid:33306051 pmcid:PMC7711032 fatcat:hmgqcan7rvflhgkclf232hh7wy

Territorial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Galicia (Spain): a geographical approach

Ángel Miramontes Carballada, Jose Balsa-Barreiro
2021 Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles  
For this, we have high spatial resolution data that has been provided by the competent authority under confidentiality.  ...  The coronavirus pandemic is causing a huge impact around the world.  ...  Before the arrival of COVID-19, there are many studies focused on the analysis of the territorial behaviour of infectious diseases that existed in the past.  ... 
doi:10.21138/bage.3157 fatcat:kp7qggea35dhze3jer3zuecf5y

More is Not Enough: A Deeper Understanding of the COVID-19 Impacts on Healthcare, Energy and Environment is Crucial

Peng Jiang, Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, Yee Van Fan, Xiuju Fu, Yong Mong Bee
2021 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  
This study overviews the structural changes and spatial heterogeneities of changes in healthcare, energy and environment, and offers perspectives for the in-depth understanding of the COVID-19 impacts  ...  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has magnified the insufficient readiness of humans in dealing with such an unexpected occurrence.  ...  Impacts on other Infectious Diseases The co-epidemics of infectious diseases have overwhelmed the healthcare systems, for example, the co-epidemics of COVID-19 and dengue fever [45] and the co-epidemics  ... 
doi:10.3390/ijerph18020684 pmid:33466940 pmcid:PMC7830940 fatcat:5q6fpyzb2vb5xacnp4vdqgxfba

Social–ecological systems approaches are essential for understanding and responding to the complex impacts of COVID-19 on people and the environment

Andrew N. Kadykalo, Christine Beaudoin, Diana M. Hackenburg, Nathan Young, Steven J. Cooke, Dominic Andreas Martin
2022 PLOS Sustainability and Transformation  
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is dramatically impacting planetary and human societal systems that are inseparably linked.  ...  In some cases, COVID-19 policy measures further contributed to the problem such as reducing environmental taxes or regulatory enforcement.  ...  The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (hereafter, "the pandemic") is dramatically impacting planetary systems [4] .  ... 
doi:10.1371/journal.pstr.0000006 fatcat:ceyrceqfbng7dd4ztu5swgt3te

Resilient urban form to pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19

Azadeh Lak, Shideh Shakouri Asl, Ali Maher
2020 Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran  
According to the lessons of the COVID-19 outbreak, this study aimed to review the current strategies of responding to pandemics through disaster risk management (DRM) to develop a pandemic-resilient urban  ...  Methods: The research method is developed through desk study was used to explore the current literature of urban form responded to COVID-19 pandemic and for the text analysis; qualitative content analysis  ...  Also, quantitative and field studies could lead to the exploration of the association between the features of resilient cities that have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and disease transmission.  ... 
doi:10.47176/mjiri.34.71 fatcat:ryny3cm2sfdpdlcblbvcpq7f2a

The US COVID Atlas: A dynamic cyberinfrastructure surveillance system for interactive exploration of the pandemic

Marynia Kolak, Xun Li, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Moksha Menghaney, Stephanie Yang, Vidal Anguiano
2021 Transactions on GIS  
analysis central to the COVID-19 pandemic.  ...  We integrate explorative spatial data analysis (ESDA) and statistical hotspot standards to detect infectious disease clusters in real time, building on decades of research in GIScience and spatial statistics  ...  The novel coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020 tested all the stress points of infectious disease surveillance system work.  ... 
doi:10.1111/tgis.12786 pmid:34512108 pmcid:PMC8420397 fatcat:7ld2e4vryzdmljwxock54d6vq4

Managing and assembling population-scale data streams, tools and workflows to plan for future pandemics within the INFORM-Africa Consortium

Jenicca Poongavanan, Joicymara Xavier, Marcel Dunaiski, Houriiyah Tegally, Sunday O. Oladejo, Olawole Ayorinde, Eduan Wilkinson, Cheryl Baxter, Tulio De Oliveira
2023 South African Journal of Science  
The aim is to increase access to high-quality, reproducible data that can be used to engage policymakers and better prepare for future pandemics, while also removing barriers to data sharing and integration  ...  The INFORM-Africa Consortium, a research hub of the NIH-funded DS-I Africa, will leverage the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Core to ensure effective data  ...  Acknowledgements We acknowledge support from the US National Institutes of Health through the INFORM-Africa project that is administered by IHVN (U54 TW012041) and the eLwazi Open Data Science Platform  ... 
doi:10.17159/sajs.2023/14659 pmid:38645941 pmcid:PMC11027707 fatcat:yp47aqqzt5cwlocl7yha5hkmti

Anthropological Research in Public Health Emergencies in India: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Suman Chakravarty, Department of Anthropology and Coordinator of Department of Food and Nutrition, Mrinalini Datta Mahavidyapith, Birati, Kolkata 700 051, West Bengal, India
2022 Anthropology - Open Journal  
The current global pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) disease and similar kinds of recent diseases like the Ebola virus and Zika virus diseases urge to renovate the recognition of the need  ...  Objective The objective was to find out the community preparedness and response to COVID-19. Methodology For the present study, both secondary and primary data were used.  ...  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the study participants. FUNDING None.  ... 
doi:10.17140/antpoj-5-130 fatcat:kgsw4qkwkfg3lcsplkqy2lcnf4

Multistakeholder Participation in Disaster Management—The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sigamani Panneer, Komali Kantamaneni, Robert Ramesh Babu Pushparaj, Sulochana Shekhar, Lekha Bhat, Louis Rice
2021 Healthcare  
The study then presents a conceptual framework for multistakeholder participation governance as one of the effective models to fight against COVID-19.  ...  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting society's health, economy, environment and development.  ...  spatial tracking of confirmed cases, estimation of regional transmission, and provide solid spatial information support for decision-making, measures formulation, and effective assessment of COVID-19 prevention  ... 
doi:10.3390/healthcare9020203 pmid:33668669 pmcid:PMC7918841 fatcat:22tj57m2szeefhevncujn56tdm

Spatial analysis and GIS in the study of COVID-19. A review

Ivan Franch-Pardo, Brian M. Napoletano, Fernando Rosete-Verges, Lawal Billa
2020 Science of the Total Environment  
This study entailed a review of 63 scientific articles on geospatial and spatial-statistical analysis of the geographical dimension of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.  ...  It is hoped that its findings will inspire new reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic by readers.  ...  The key to addressing current and future outbreaks of COVID-19, or for that matter, any infectious disease outbreak of this magnitude, is to prepare a versatile and highly skilled nursing workforce.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140033 pmid:32534320 pmcid:PMC7832930 fatcat:qjpnjimdinaohjyq36gjqjqmfm

STAMINA: Bioinformatics Platform for Monitoring and Mitigating Pandemic Outbreaks

Nikolaos Bakalos, Maria Kaselimi, Nikolaos Doulamis, Anastasios Doulamis, Dimitrios Kalogeras, Mathaios Bimpas, Agapi Davradou, Aggeliki Vlachostergiou, Anaxagoras Fotopoulos, Maria Plakia, Alexandros Karalis, Sofia Tsekeridou (+15 others)
2022 Technologies  
The architecture of the platform aims at providing a number of pandemic-response-related services, on a modular basis, that allows for the easy customization of the platform to address user's needs per  ...  This customization is achieved through its ability to deploy only the necessary, loosely coupled services and tools for each case, and by providing a common authentication, data storage and data exchange  ...  Data Availability Statement: All data driven applications used the our world in data COVID-19 datasets, complimented by proprietary datasets share by the STAMINA consortium.  ... 
doi:10.3390/technologies10030063 fatcat:haa4gagpxzcolmwhdnzlvpq3gm

The first 100 days: how has COVID-19 affected poor and vulnerable groups in India?

Mira Johri, Sumeet Agarwal, Aman Khullar, Dinesh Chandra, Vijay Sai Pratap, Aaditeshwar Seth, Gram Vaani Team
2021 Health Promotion International  
We analysed people's experiences recorded and shared via mobile phone on the voice platforms operated by the Gram Vaani COVID-19 response network, a service for rural and low-income populations now being  ...  This study provides an evolving portrait of the health, economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations in India.  ...  , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for top-up funds on project #INV-002938 to extend the scope to COVID-19 relief and awareness efforts and the IC-IMPACTS Innovative Technologies Demonstration Projects  ... 
doi:10.1093/heapro/daab050 pmid:34002217 pmcid:PMC8194803 fatcat:mh4xz74ukvddzgjwgr6kv3if3y

iResponse: An AI and IoT-Enabled Framework for Autonomous COVID-19 Pandemic Management

Furqan Alam, Ahmed Almaghthawi, Iyad Katib, Aiiad Albeshri, Rashid Mehmood
2021 Sustainability  
These include a sentiment analysis case study, a case study on the recognition of human activities, and four case studies using deep learning and other data-driven methods to show how to develop sustainability-related  ...  The current research and practice have mainly focused on specific aspects of COVID-19 response.  ...  Acknowledgments: The experiments reported in this paper were performed on the Aziz supercomputer at KAU.  ... 
doi:10.3390/su13073797 fatcat:qhpjgkzk7jbollkmtqdxbawasm
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