[HTML][HTML] Will the economic growth benefit public health? Health vulnerability, urbanization and COVID-19 in the USA

Y Fan, M Fang, X Zhang, Y Yu - The Annals of regional science, 2023 - Springer
Economic growth has a significant impact on health vulnerability primarily through the
process of urbanization. This paper conducts a pioneer study by analyzing the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] How does urbanization affect public health? New evidence from 175 countries worldwide

Z Zhang, M Zhao, Y Zhang, Y Feng - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Urbanization is an essential indicator of contemporary society and a necessary historic
stage in the industrialization of all countries. Thus, we explore the impact of urbanization on …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between county-level public health expenditures and community health planning activities with COVID-19 incidence and mortality

R Liang, MV Kiang, P Grant, C Jackson… - Preventive Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed consequences of past defunding of the US public
health system, but the extent to which public health infrastructure is associated with COVID …

Does urbanization improve health outcomes: a cross country level analysis

S Tripathi, M Maiti - Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2023 - Springer
Though rapid escalating urbanization has a positive effect on economic growth and
employment, its impacts on health outcomes need to be analyzed. Using panel quantile …

Associations of 4 geographic social vulnerability indices with US COVID-19 incidence and mortality

R Tipirneni, H Schmidt, PM Lantz… - American Journal of …, 2022 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To examine and compare how 4 indices of population-level social disadvantage—
the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), the COVID-19 …

One year into the pandemic: the impacts of social vulnerability on COVID-19 outcomes and urban–rural differences in the conterminous United States

SAA Rifat, W Liu - International Journal of Environmental Health …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper first explores spatial distributions and patterns of COVID-19 case rates
(cases/100,000 people) and mortality rates (deaths/100,000 people) and their disparities …

Spatial variation in socio-ecological vulnerability to Covid-19 in the contiguous United States

BF Snyder, V Parks - Health & place, 2020 - Elsevier
The health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic vary across space because
social, economic, health and ecological factors are also spatially variable. Social …

[HTML][HTML] Past local government health spending was not correlated with COVID-19 control in US counties

S Lamba, C Wolfson, C Cardona, YN Alfonso… - SSM-Population …, 2022 - Elsevier
Context Wide variation in state and county health spending prior to 2020 enables tests of
whether historically better state and locally funded counties achieved faster control over …

Neighborhood disadvantage measures and COVID-19 cases in Boston, 2020

ME Samuels-Kalow, S Dorner, RE Cash… - Public Health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective Understanding the pattern of population risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) is critically important for health systems and policy makers. The objective of this study …

Is there a health penalty of China's rapid urbanization?

E Van de Poel, O O'Donnell… - Health …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
While highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development, the impact of
rapid urbanization on population health is not obvious. This paper uses community and …