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

ABSTRACT: 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 and its affecting factors, including the inflow risk pressure of COVID-19 virus (population inflow from the epicenter), city agglomeration characteristics (urban population density and city size), healthcare resource adequacy, among others. The results reveal that, while managing COVID-19 inflow risk pressure plays a critical role in the city's pandemic disaster resilience, city agglomeration characteristics also matters. To be exact, we find that large and high-density cities with high inter and intra-city mobility flows have more difficulties in containing the epidemic spread, but improving healthcare infr

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8008811 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature