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Country Parks as Sites of Emergency Medical Facility: A Case of COVID-19 in Hangzhou, China

City parks are suitable sites for the construction of emergency medical facilities. A comparison of various types of city parks revealed that country parks fit closely with site selection conditions for emergency medical facilities. Based on the latter site selection requirements, eight impact facto...

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Autores principales: Li, Shuai, Wu, Zheng, Tang, Jiefang, Wang, Shuo, Wang, Pengfei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9738786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497973
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315876
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author Li, Shuai
Wu, Zheng
Tang, Jiefang
Wang, Shuo
Wang, Pengfei
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Wang, Pengfei
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description City parks are suitable sites for the construction of emergency medical facilities. A comparison of various types of city parks revealed that country parks fit closely with site selection conditions for emergency medical facilities. Based on the latter site selection requirements, eight impact factors such as park type, effective avoidance area, spatial fragmentation degree, water source protection area, wind direction, distance from city center, impermeability, and transport duration were quantified, and then 29 country parks in the Hangzhou Urban Area were compared using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The calculation results showed that Linglong Country Park has the highest score, taking into account the characteristics of safety, scalability, rehabilitation, convenience, pollution prevention, and isolation. Linglong can be given priority selection as a target location for emergency medical facilities. In addition, Silver Lake Country Park, Dongqiao Country Park, Taihuyuan Country Park, and Tuankou Country Park have higher scores and can be used as alternative targets for emergency plans. The scoring results prove that the evaluation method has a high degree of rigor, a significant degree of discrimination, and a high degree of consistency between the validity and weight assignment of each impact factor. In view of the different geographical conditions in each region, the weight assignment of each impact factor can be adjusted according to local conditions and can help make effective use of existing conditions and avoid disadvantages.
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spelling pubmed-97387862022-12-11 Country Parks as Sites of Emergency Medical Facility: A Case of COVID-19 in Hangzhou, China Li, Shuai Wu, Zheng Tang, Jiefang Wang, Shuo Wang, Pengfei Int J Environ Res Public Health Article City parks are suitable sites for the construction of emergency medical facilities. A comparison of various types of city parks revealed that country parks fit closely with site selection conditions for emergency medical facilities. Based on the latter site selection requirements, eight impact factors such as park type, effective avoidance area, spatial fragmentation degree, water source protection area, wind direction, distance from city center, impermeability, and transport duration were quantified, and then 29 country parks in the Hangzhou Urban Area were compared using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The calculation results showed that Linglong Country Park has the highest score, taking into account the characteristics of safety, scalability, rehabilitation, convenience, pollution prevention, and isolation. Linglong can be given priority selection as a target location for emergency medical facilities. In addition, Silver Lake Country Park, Dongqiao Country Park, Taihuyuan Country Park, and Tuankou Country Park have higher scores and can be used as alternative targets for emergency plans. The scoring results prove that the evaluation method has a high degree of rigor, a significant degree of discrimination, and a high degree of consistency between the validity and weight assignment of each impact factor. In view of the different geographical conditions in each region, the weight assignment of each impact factor can be adjusted according to local conditions and can help make effective use of existing conditions and avoid disadvantages. MDPI 2022-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9738786/ /pubmed/36497973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315876 Text en © 2022 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/).
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title_fullStr Country Parks as Sites of Emergency Medical Facility: A Case of COVID-19 in Hangzhou, China
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title_short Country Parks as Sites of Emergency Medical Facility: A Case of COVID-19 in Hangzhou, China
title_sort country parks as sites of emergency medical facility: a case of covid-19 in hangzhou, china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9738786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36497973
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315876
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