التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
COVID-19 infection rate but not severity is associated with availability of greenness in the United States. |
| المؤلفون: |
Lin, Jian, Huang, Bo, Kwan, Mei-Po, Chen, Min, Wang, Qiang |
| المصدر: |
Landscape & Urban Planning; May2023, Vol. 233, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
COVID-19, NORMALIZED difference vegetation index, NEGATIVE binomial distribution, OLDER men, COVID-19 pandemic |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
• The associations between availability of greenness and COVID-19 outcomes are examined. • Availability of greenness is associated with lower rates of COVID-19 infection. • Availability of greenness has limited effects for ameliorating COVID-19 related inequity. • The findings provide working hypotheses for effectively designing nature-based interventions. Human exposure to greenness is associated with COVID-19 prevalence and severity, but most relevant research has focused on the relationships between greenness and COVID-19 infection rates. In contrast, relatively little is known about the associations between greenness and COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, which are important for risk assessment, resource allocation, and intervention strategies. Moreover, it is unclear whether greenness could help reduce health inequities by offering more benefits to disadvantaged populations. Here, we estimated the associations between availability of greenness (expressed as population-density-weighted normalized difference vegetation index) and COVID-19 outcomes across the urban–rural continuum gradient in the United States using generalized additive models with a negative binomial distribution. We aggregated individual COVID-19 records at the county level, which includes 3,040 counties for COVID-19 case infection rates, 1,397 counties for case hospitalization rates, and 1,305 counties for case fatality rates. Our area-level ecological study suggests that although availability of greenness shows null relationships with COVID-19 case hospitalization and fatality rates, COVID-19 infection rate is statistically significant and negatively associated with more greenness availability. When performing stratified analyses by different sociodemographic groups, availability of greenness shows stronger negative associations for men than for women, and for adults than for the elderly. This indicates that greenness might have greater health benefits for the former than the latter, and thus has limited effects for ameliorating COVID-19 related inequity. The revealed greenness-COVID-19 links across different space, time and sociodemographic groups provide working hypotheses for the targeted design of nature-based interventions and greening policies to benefit human well-being and reduce health inequity. This has important implications for the post-pandemic recovery and future public health crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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