ABSTRACT
Schools are the key units for infectious disease prevention and control. Students are the key groups in prevention and control of infectious diseases. The establishment of links between schools and out campus hospitals is an important measure for epidemic prevention and control of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). How to use reasonable human resources, financial resources and material resources to make rational decisions and respond quickly to the best cost performance is the practical problem facing all schools. Therefore, the accessibility of Wuhan medical services to schools is analyzed through GIS, and the resilience of hospitals is analyzed by simulating short-term heavy rainfall weather. The results show that large hospitals in Wuhan are mostly concentrated in the city center, which can effectively resist the impact of sudden epidemic and disperse the risk to the periphery of the city. The buffer zone of large hospitals in Wuhan can effectively cover most schools and can respond quickly, but some hospitals have low accessibility in extreme weather. It is necessary to further improve the distribution of medical resources in various regions and improve emergency transportation planning. © 2022 ACM.
ABSTRACT
In late 2020, as soon as the approval of the first vaccines against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) became foreseeable in line with the normative political goal of providing comparable living conditions to all residents of Germany irrespective of where they live, the German national government's national vaccination strategy called for the widespread establishment of COVID-19 vaccination centers. As the vaccination program has been rolled out, difficulties in accessing vaccination centers have been reported. Against this background, the paper considers the questions whether, where and for whom spatial inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination center accessibility in Germany might exist. Such an understanding might help to prepare for future situations when adequate disaster response requires, similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government to quickly reach great parts of the population in an efficient manner. To approach this question, we examine the accessibility by the means of transport foot, bicycle, car and public transport at small scale based on an accessibility model from the point of view of the "households". We found that in contrast to the common belief COVID-19 vaccination center accessibility or inaccessibility in Germany does not seem to be a spatial phenomenon cheating non-rural regions and discriminating rural regions as anticipated, it is instead strongly dependent on people's individual mobility capabilities in both rural and urban areas.