Contemporary urban form, COVID-19, social disadvantage, and health outcomes
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Date: 3/24/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Mineral Hall A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group, Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anzhelika Antipova University of Memphis
Chair(s):
Anzhelika Antipova University of Memphis
Description:
Recent studies find a positive association between urban form including population density and COVID-19 outcomes (transmission and mortality) and negative association between green space and COVID-19 outcomes (Lee et al., 2021). The links have been found between urban overcrowding and COVID-19 death rates in dense metropolises including Los Angeles (Mejia et al, 2022), New York City (Almagro et al, 2020), the Bay Area (Hwang & Shrimali (2022), Chicago (Maroko et al., 2020) and Washington, D.C. (Hu et al., 2021), among other urban areas. yet overall association between urban environments with COVID-19 spread and mortality seems unclear (Lee et al., 2021). During pandemics the potential for more interactions with infected people might be greater in crowded compared with sparsely populated places. Globally, urbanization has been found to be significantly positively correlated with covid-19 cases and deaths (Gupta et al., 2020). Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic is seen as promoting urban sprawl as people moved out of denser metropolitan areas to smaller cities, suburban and outlying exurban neighborhoods, while there was a decrease in people moving into central cities (Peiser and Hugel, 2022). Small satellite suburbs and exurbs turned into Covid-era boom towns across the U.S. attracting new arrivals, business and construction by low property taxes, easy access to employment, transportation and retail corridors and a vibrant local economy (Sisson, 2022).
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LAND COVER CHANGES IN THE DARIÉN AND EMBERÁ PROVINCES, PANAMA, DURING AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC |
Marya Rozanova-Smith |
Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Iceland |
Amber Orozco, University of Georgia |
Archives of Mortality: Cariño as Method in Latinx Oral Histories and Digital Geographies on Year One of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Raymond Tutu, Delaware State University |
Health Literacy Priorities and Activities of Migrant Faith-Based Organizations: Opportunities and Limitations |
Ana Guerrero |
Coastal Community Resilience: A pilot study on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in a south Texas ethnic minority community. |
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Contemporary urban form, COVID-19, social disadvantage, and health outcomes
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/24/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Mineral Hall A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Anzhelika Antipova University of Memphis
antipova@memphis.edu
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