RT Journal Article
T1 The Neighborhood Contagion Focus as a Spatial Unit for Diagnosis and Epidemiological Action against COVID-19 Contagion in Urban Spaces: A Methodological Proposal for Its Detection and Delimitation
A1 Perles-Roselló, María Jesús
A1 Sortino-Barrionuevo, Juan Francisco
A1 Mérida-Rodríguez, Matías Francisco
K1 COVID-19 - Cartografía
AB The concept of neighborhood contagion focus is defined and justified as a basic spatial unit for epidemiological diagnosis and action, and a specific methodological procedure is provided to detect and map focuses and micro-focuses of contagion without using regular or artificial spatial units. The starting hypothesis is that the contagion in urban spaces manifests unevenly in the form of clusters of cases that are generated and developed by neighborhood contagion. Methodologically, the spatial distribution of those infected in the study area, the city of Málaga (Spain), is firstly analyzed from the disaggregated and anonymous address information. After defining the concept of neighborhood contagion focus and justifying its morphological parameters, a method to detect and map neighborhood contagion focus in urban settings is proposed and applied to the study case. As the main results, the existence of focuses and micro-focuses in the spatial pattern of contagion is verified. Focuses are considered as an ideal spatial analysis unit, and the advantages and potentialities of the use of mapping focus as a useful tool for health and territorial management in different phases of the epidemic are shown.
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35502
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35502
LA spa
NO Perles, M.-J.; Sortino, J.F.; Mérida, M.F. The Neighborhood Contagion Focus as a Spatial Unit for Diagnosis and Epidemiological Action against COVID-19 Contagion in Urban Spaces: A Methodological Proposal for Its Detection and Delimitation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3145. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063145
NO Project COV20/00587 (Development of COVID-19 transmission hazard maps in urban areas aimed at the application of anti-propagation measures at a detailed scale), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). (FUNDING—COVID19 for research projects about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 within the framework of the RD-Ley 8/2020). Main researcher: María Jesús Perles Roselló
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 24 ene 2026