Cargando…

A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective

The COVID-19 outbreak is a manifestation of the contradiction between man and land. Geography plays an important role in epidemic prevention and control with its cross-sectional characteristics and spatial perspective. Based on a systematic review of previous studies, this paper summarizes the resea...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Xie, Zhixiang, Zhao, Rongqin, Ding, Minglei, Zhang, Zhiqiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212182
_version_ 1784605351121780736
author Xie, Zhixiang
Zhao, Rongqin
Ding, Minglei
Zhang, Zhiqiang
author_facet Xie, Zhixiang
Zhao, Rongqin
Ding, Minglei
Zhang, Zhiqiang
author_sort Xie, Zhixiang
collection PubMed
description The COVID-19 outbreak is a manifestation of the contradiction between man and land. Geography plays an important role in epidemic prevention and control with its cross-sectional characteristics and spatial perspective. Based on a systematic review of previous studies, this paper summarizes the research progress on factors influencing the spatial spread of COVID-19 from the research content and method and proposes the main development direction of geography in epidemic prevention and control research in the future. Overall, current studies have explored the factors influencing the epidemic spread on different scales, including global, national, regional and urban. Research methods are mainly composed of quantitative analysis. In addition to the traditional regression analysis and correlation analysis, the spatial lag model, the spatial error model, the geographically weighted regression model and the geographic detector have been widely used. The impact of natural environment and economic and social factors on the epidemic spread is mainly reflected in temperature, humidity, wind speed, air pollutants, population movement, economic development level and medical and health facilities. In the future, new technologies, new methods and new means should be used to reveal the driving mechanism of the epidemic spread in a specific geographical space, which is refined, multi-scale and systematic, with emphasis on exploring the factors influencing the epidemic spread from the perspective of spatial and behavioral interaction, and establish a spatial database platform that combines the information of residents’ cases, the natural environment and economic society. This is of great significance to further play the role of geography in epidemic prevention and control.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8620996
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-86209962021-11-27 A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective Xie, Zhixiang Zhao, Rongqin Ding, Minglei Zhang, Zhiqiang Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The COVID-19 outbreak is a manifestation of the contradiction between man and land. Geography plays an important role in epidemic prevention and control with its cross-sectional characteristics and spatial perspective. Based on a systematic review of previous studies, this paper summarizes the research progress on factors influencing the spatial spread of COVID-19 from the research content and method and proposes the main development direction of geography in epidemic prevention and control research in the future. Overall, current studies have explored the factors influencing the epidemic spread on different scales, including global, national, regional and urban. Research methods are mainly composed of quantitative analysis. In addition to the traditional regression analysis and correlation analysis, the spatial lag model, the spatial error model, the geographically weighted regression model and the geographic detector have been widely used. The impact of natural environment and economic and social factors on the epidemic spread is mainly reflected in temperature, humidity, wind speed, air pollutants, population movement, economic development level and medical and health facilities. In the future, new technologies, new methods and new means should be used to reveal the driving mechanism of the epidemic spread in a specific geographical space, which is refined, multi-scale and systematic, with emphasis on exploring the factors influencing the epidemic spread from the perspective of spatial and behavioral interaction, and establish a spatial database platform that combines the information of residents’ cases, the natural environment and economic society. This is of great significance to further play the role of geography in epidemic prevention and control. MDPI 2021-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8620996/ /pubmed/34831938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212182 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Xie, Zhixiang
Zhao, Rongqin
Ding, Minglei
Zhang, Zhiqiang
A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title_full A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title_fullStr A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title_full_unstemmed A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title_short A Review of Influencing Factors on Spatial Spread of COVID-19 Based on Geographical Perspective
title_sort review of influencing factors on spatial spread of covid-19 based on geographical perspective
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212182
work_keys_str_mv AT xiezhixiang areviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT zhaorongqin areviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT dingminglei areviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT zhangzhiqiang areviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT xiezhixiang reviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT zhaorongqin reviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT dingminglei reviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective
AT zhangzhiqiang reviewofinfluencingfactorsonspatialspreadofcovid19basedongeographicalperspective