Environmental factors influencing COVID-19 incidence and severity

AK Weaver, JR Head, CF Gould… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors—including air pollution
and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment—and severe acute respiratory …

A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality

AN Nair, P Anand, A George, N Mondal - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an
infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. Thus …

Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic

N Agarwal, CS Meena, BP Raj, L Saini, A Kumar… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction The advent of COVID-19 has im**ed millions of people. The increased
concern of the virus spread in confined spaces due to meteorological factors has …

[BUCH][B] The unequal pandemic: COVID-19 and health inequalities

C Bambra, J Lynch, KE Smith - 2021 - library.oapen.org
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND It has been claimed that we
are 'all in it together'and that the COVID-19 virus 'does not discriminate'. This accessible, yet …

Landfill location selection for healthcare waste of urban areas using hybrid BWM-grey MARCOS model based on GIS

AE Torkayesh, SH Zolfani, M Kahvand… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Healthcare waste generated by medical activities in big cities includes a vast spectrum of
materials, from blood, body parts, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, diagnostic …

Are high-density districts more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic?

AR Khavarian-Garmsir, A Sharifi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought questions about the desirability of compact urban
development to the fore. There are some concerns that high density may be a risk factor that …

COVID-19, the built environment, and health

H Frumkin - Environmental health perspectives, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Since the dawn of cities, the built environment has both affected infectious
disease transmission and evolved in response to infectious diseases. COVID-19 illustrates …

What determines city's resilience against epidemic outbreak: Evidence from China's COVID-19 experience

J Chen, X Guo, H Pan, S Zhong - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
By employing the city-level data from China during the spring of 2020, this study investigates
the relationship between city-level resilience against the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemics …

Building back better: The COVID-19 pandemic and transport policy implications for a develo** megacity

M Hasselwander, T Tamagusko, JF Bigotte… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected human mobility via lockdowns, social distancing
rules, home quarantines, and the full or partial suspension of transportation. Evidence …

A review of GIS methodologies to analyze the dynamics of COVID‐19 in the second half of 2020

I Franch‐Pardo, MR Desjardins… - Transactions in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 has infected over 163 million people and has resulted in over 3.9 million deaths.
Regarding the tools and strategies to research the ongoing pandemic, spatial analysis has …