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A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy
2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a big impact in Italy, mainly concentrated in the northern part of the Country. All this was mainly due to similarities of this area with Wuhan in Hubei Province, according to geographical, environmental and socio-economic points of view. The basic hypothesis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8816798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35131320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.112873 |
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author | Beniamino, Murgante Ginevra, Balletto Giuseppe, Borruso Lucia, Saganeiti Angela, Pilogallo Francesco, Scorza Paolo, Castiglia Antonella, Arghittu Marco, Dettori |
author_facet | Beniamino, Murgante Ginevra, Balletto Giuseppe, Borruso Lucia, Saganeiti Angela, Pilogallo Francesco, Scorza Paolo, Castiglia Antonella, Arghittu Marco, Dettori |
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description | 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a big impact in Italy, mainly concentrated in the northern part of the Country. All this was mainly due to similarities of this area with Wuhan in Hubei Province, according to geographical, environmental and socio-economic points of view. The basic hypothesis of this research was that the presence of atmospheric pollutants can generate stress on health conditions of the population and determine pre-conditions for the development of diseases of the respiratory system and complications related to them. In most cases the attention on environmental aspects is mainly concentrated on pollution, neglecting issues such as land management which, in some way, can contribute to reducing the impact of pollution. The reduction of land take and the decrease in the loss of ecosystem services can represent an important aspect in improving environmental quality. In order to integrate policies for environmental change and human health, the main factors analyzed in this paper can be summarized in environmental, climatic and land management. The main aim of this paper was to produce three different hazard scenarios respectively related to environmental, climatic and land management-related factors. A Spatial Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method has been applied over thirteen informative layers grouped in aggregation classes of environmental, climatic and land management. The results of the health hazard maps show a disparity in the distribution of territorial responses to the pandemic in Italy. The environmental components play an extremely relevant role in the definition of the red zones of hazard, with a consequent urgent need to renew sustainable development strategies. The comparison of hazard maps related to different scenarios provides decision makers with tools to orient policy choices with a different degree of priority according to a place-based approach. In particular, the geospatial representation of risks could be a tool for legitimizing the measures chosen by decision-makers, proposing a renewed approach that highlights and takes account of the differences between the spatial contexts to be considered - Regions, Provinces, Municipalities - also in terms of climatic and environmental variables. |
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spelling | pubmed-88167982022-02-07 A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy Beniamino, Murgante Ginevra, Balletto Giuseppe, Borruso Lucia, Saganeiti Angela, Pilogallo Francesco, Scorza Paolo, Castiglia Antonella, Arghittu Marco, Dettori Environ Res Article 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a big impact in Italy, mainly concentrated in the northern part of the Country. All this was mainly due to similarities of this area with Wuhan in Hubei Province, according to geographical, environmental and socio-economic points of view. The basic hypothesis of this research was that the presence of atmospheric pollutants can generate stress on health conditions of the population and determine pre-conditions for the development of diseases of the respiratory system and complications related to them. In most cases the attention on environmental aspects is mainly concentrated on pollution, neglecting issues such as land management which, in some way, can contribute to reducing the impact of pollution. The reduction of land take and the decrease in the loss of ecosystem services can represent an important aspect in improving environmental quality. In order to integrate policies for environmental change and human health, the main factors analyzed in this paper can be summarized in environmental, climatic and land management. The main aim of this paper was to produce three different hazard scenarios respectively related to environmental, climatic and land management-related factors. A Spatial Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method has been applied over thirteen informative layers grouped in aggregation classes of environmental, climatic and land management. The results of the health hazard maps show a disparity in the distribution of territorial responses to the pandemic in Italy. The environmental components play an extremely relevant role in the definition of the red zones of hazard, with a consequent urgent need to renew sustainable development strategies. The comparison of hazard maps related to different scenarios provides decision makers with tools to orient policy choices with a different degree of priority according to a place-based approach. In particular, the geospatial representation of risks could be a tool for legitimizing the measures chosen by decision-makers, proposing a renewed approach that highlights and takes account of the differences between the spatial contexts to be considered - Regions, Provinces, Municipalities - also in terms of climatic and environmental variables. Elsevier Inc. 2022-06 2022-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8816798/ /pubmed/35131320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.112873 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Beniamino, Murgante Ginevra, Balletto Giuseppe, Borruso Lucia, Saganeiti Angela, Pilogallo Francesco, Scorza Paolo, Castiglia Antonella, Arghittu Marco, Dettori A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title | A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title_full | A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title_fullStr | A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title_short | A methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from COVID-19 in Italy |
title_sort | methodological proposal to evaluate the health hazard scenario from covid-19 in italy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8816798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35131320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.112873 |
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