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Maohua Liu, Siqi Luo and Xishihui Du
The unequal allocation of healthcare resources raises many fundamental problems, one of which is how to address inequity in population health. This paper focuses on disparities in public transport healthcare accessibility, with a special focus on an expa...
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Almir Karabegovic, Mirza Ponjavic and Mirsada Hukic
The outbreak of COVID-19 is a public health emergency that caused disastrous results in many countries. The global aim is to stop transmission and prevent the spread of the disease. To achieve it, every country needs to scale up emergency response mechan...
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Navid Mahdizadeh Gharakhanlou, Navid Hooshangi and Marco Helbich
Malaria threatens the lives of many people throughout the world. To counteract its spread, knowledge of the prevalence of malaria and the effectiveness of intervention strategies is of great importance. The aim of this study was to assess (1) the spread ...
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Nathaniel R. Geyer, Fritz C. Kessler and Eugene J. Lengerich
The Penn State Cancer Initiative implemented LionVu 1.0 (Penn State University, United States) in 2017 as a web-based mapping tool to educate and inform public health professionals about the cancer burden in Pennsylvania and 28 counties in central Pennsy...
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R. Shanmathi Rekha, Shayesta Wajid, Nisha Radhakrishnan, Samson Mathew
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Health care is one of the most important facility and it helps to improve the quality of life and social welfare of modern society. Recent advances in the field of health geography have greatly improved our understanding of the role played by geographic ...
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Abrar Almalki, Balakrishna Gokaraju, Nikhil Mehta and Daniel Adrian Doss
Food access is a major key component in food security, as it is every individual?s right to proper access to a nutritious and affordable food supply. Low access to healthy food sources influences people?s diet and activity habits. Guilford County in Nort...
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Yaqian He, Paul J. Seminara, Xiao Huang, Di Yang, Fang Fang and Chao Song
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed numerous challenges to human society. Previous studies explored multiple factors in virus transmission. Yet, their impacts on COVID-19 are not universal and vary across geographical regions. In this study, we thoroughly qu...
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James Acker, Radina Soebiyanto, Richard Kiang and Steve Kempler
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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Soowoong Noh
Many municipalities in the US are deploying urban planning approaches to resolve problems caused by urban sprawl, particularly the lack of support for physical activity. Although a variety of perspectives on the relationship between physical activity and...
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Soowoong Noh
Many municipalities in the US are deploying urban planning approaches to resolve problems caused by urban sprawl, particularly the lack of support for physical activity. Although a variety of perspectives on the relationship between physical activity and...
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Laura Barron, Dominique Ruggieri and Charles Branas
Urban heat island (UHI) effect is an increasingly prominent health and environmental hazard that is linked to urbanization and climate change. Greening reduces the negative impacts of UHI; trees specifically are the most effective in ambient temperature ...
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Laura Barron, Dominique Ruggieri and Charles Branas
Urban heat island (UHI) effect is an increasingly prominent health and environmental hazard that is linked to urbanization and climate change. Greening reduces the negative impacts of UHI; trees specifically are the most effective in ambient temperature ...
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Edrick Ramos, Raja Karim Bux, Dora Ileana Medina, Héctor Barrios-Piña and Jürgen Mahlknecht
Groundwater is the main source of drinking water supply in most urban environments around the world. The content of potentially toxic elements is increasing in many groundwater systems owing to inadequate groundwater recharge, aquifer overexploitation, n...
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Liang Zhan, Nana Li, Chune Li, Xuejia Sang and Jun Ma
Protecting residents? health and improving equality are important goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on the medical systems of many countries and been disastrous for the lo...
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Tarek Elsaka, Imad Afyouni, Ibrahim Hashem and Zaher Al Aghbari
Since the recent outbreak of COVID-19, many scientists have started working on distinct challenges related to mining the available large datasets from social media as an effective asset to understand people?s responses to the pandemic. This study present...
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Angel Miramontes Carballada and Jose Balsa-Barreiro
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is showing dramatic impact across the world. Public health authorities attempt to fight against the virus while maintaining economic activity. In the face of the uncertainty derived from the virus, all the countries ha...
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Lia Duarte, Ana Cláudia Teodoro, Mariana Lobo, João Viana, Vera Pinheiro and Alberto Freitas
Prevention quality indicators (PQIs) constitute a set of measures that can be combined with hospital inpatient data to identify the quality of care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC). Geographical information system (GIS) web mapping and app...
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Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah and Tayyab Shah
Urban cyclists are exposed to many traffic-related air pollutants including particulate matter (PM) that may increase vulnerability to health effects. This study investigates second-by-second personal exposure to PM2.5 (fine particulate matter that is 2....
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