Maternal Health and Green Spaces in China: A Longitudinal Analysis of MMR Based on Spatial Panel Model
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Department of Graphics and Digital Technology, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Department of Urban Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Healthcare 2019, 7(4), 154; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040154
Received: 24 October 2019
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Revised: 14 November 2019
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Accepted: 29 November 2019
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Published: 2 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Factors and Global Health)
The positive impact of green spaces on public health has attracted increasing attention, and maternal health has also been shown to be related to green spaces. However, there are different kinds of green space indicators that represent different mechanisms for mitigating maternal health, and few studies have investigated the different relevance amongst them with longitudinal data. This study explores the correlation between various green space indicators and maternal health using spatial panel models with provincial data from China from 2007 to 2016. The results indicate that all kinds of green spaces could decrease maternal mortality, wherein public green spaces may play a key role. In terms of spatial correlation, an increase in green space coverage in adjacent provinces may also result in a slight decline in maternal mortality. This paper provides valuable insight into the correlation between maternal health and green spaces.
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Keywords:
Maternal health; Public Green Space; Green Space Coverage; Spatial Panel Model; Maternal Mortality Ratio
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Jin, P.; Gao, Y.; Liu, L.; Peng, Z.; Wu, H. Maternal Health and Green Spaces in China: A Longitudinal Analysis of MMR Based on Spatial Panel Model. Healthcare 2019, 7, 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040154
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Jin P, Gao Y, Liu L, Peng Z, Wu H. Maternal Health and Green Spaces in China: A Longitudinal Analysis of MMR Based on Spatial Panel Model. Healthcare. 2019; 7(4):154. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040154
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin, Ping, Yushu Gao, Lingbo Liu, Zhenghong Peng, and Hao Wu. 2019. "Maternal Health and Green Spaces in China: A Longitudinal Analysis of MMR Based on Spatial Panel Model" Healthcare 7, no. 4: 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7040154
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