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Health Impacts of Climate Change: Urbanization and Inequalities

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2021) | Viewed by 5549

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Whanhee Lee

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Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
Interests: temperature/air pollution and health; urbanization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute to our new Special Issue “Health Impacts of Climate Change: Urbanization and Inequalities”, which is launched by the journal Sustainability. The scope of the Special Issue covers the health impacts of exposures related to climate change and the effect modification according to urbanization level, urban policies, and/or inequalities in the socio-economic and environmental fields. We are looking forward to receiving your invaluable manuscripts.

The topics of interest to this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
The health impacts of extreme temperatures and air pollution;
The roles of urbanization and socio-economic inequalities on the health impacts of environmental exposures.

Dr. Whanhee Lee
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • climate change
  • epidemiology
  • inequality
  • public health
  • urbanization
  • urban policy

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Does Urbanization Increase the Risk of Emerging Infectious Diseases in China? A Spatial Econometric Analysis
by Xiuju Feng, Shutong Liu, Chuanrong Wang, Jittaporn Sriboonjit, Jianxu Liu and Songsak Sriboonchitta
Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 165; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14010165 - 24 Dec 2021
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has inspired more and more discussion about the relationship between urbanization and emerging infectious diseases (EID). This paper aims to examine the spatial effect of urbanization on EID incidence, such as hepatitis, syphilis and gonorrhea in China. Taking into [...] Read more.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has inspired more and more discussion about the relationship between urbanization and emerging infectious diseases (EID). This paper aims to examine the spatial effect of urbanization on EID incidence, such as hepatitis, syphilis and gonorrhea in China. Taking into account geographical and economic factors, the estimation results of the Spatial Error Model (SEM) show that urbanization has increased the risks of EID transmission from 2003 to 2019 in China. The spatial effects of urbanization are slightly different due to different types of infectious diseases, with a larger effect on syphilis comparing with hepatitis and gonorrhea. The regional heterogeneity test shows that the impact of urbanization on EID in eastern China is stronger than that in the Midwest especially when considering spatial correlation. Policy implications that include health must be integrated into urban planning, attaching more importance to ecological construction, improving regional joint prevention and control mechanisms, and more attention being paid to vulnerable groups. Considering the frequent occurrence of COVID-19 among cities in China, we emphasize the importance of enhancing the coordinated anti-crisis capacity of urban clusters and highlight the leading role of central cities. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Impacts of Climate Change: Urbanization and Inequalities)
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How Does an Environmental Amenity Attract Voluntary Migrants? Evidence from Ambient Air Quality in China
by Moon Joon Kim, Xiaolin Xie and Xiaochen Zhang
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6872; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13126872 - 17 Jun 2021
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Recent studies have shown that air quality is an important amenity for population relocation in China. However, much of Chinese internal migration occurs due to non-discretionary reasons, such as government policies, family considerations, and military personnel reassignments. As such, estimates of the impact [...] Read more.
Recent studies have shown that air quality is an important amenity for population relocation in China. However, much of Chinese internal migration occurs due to non-discretionary reasons, such as government policies, family considerations, and military personnel reassignments. As such, estimates of the impact of environmental amenities on migration that do not control for migration reasons may be biased. Using the 2015 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper estimates the impact of ambient air pollution on voluntary migration to other provinces for work. We find that more polluted days (air quality index (AQI) > 150) at the original residence leads to a significant increase in labor out-migration to a province with better air quality, providing evidence of the current migration trend leading to declining populations in China’s megacities. Our findings indicate that environmental migration is more favored among households that are less educated, are older, work overtime, and have lower income, suggesting that environmental migration may result from environmental health inequalities in socially disadvantaged families. Full article
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