Relating biodiversity with health disparities of human population: An ecological study across the United States.

ABSTRACT: Understanding biodiversity's contributions to human health is the first step toward fostering synergies between biodiversity conservation and health promotion - two major targets of UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The One Health approach acknowledges the health of people and biodiversity are interconnected and facing common threats. In this study, we aimed to unveil the geographical association between avian biodiversity and population health across the US. In this ecological study, we combined citizen science bird data from eBird, population health data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and county-level statistics of population characteristics, including socio-economics, healthcare service etc. Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed between bird bio

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288075 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature