Counting COVID: Quantitative Geographical Approaches to COVID-19 Chapter uri icon

abstract

  • We discuss the use of quantitative data and methods to understand where and how COVID-19 spreads, to estimate and predict its impacts on population health and wellbeing, and to plan effective public health responses. Geographicapproaches often involve developing multi-scalar and dynamic models that incorporate geographic processes and variability, harnessing big and real-time data on peoples mobilities and interactions, and paying attention to how gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of peoples identities intersect with larger structures in impacting the uneven geographies of COVID-19 risk. Our chapter addresses each of these topics while highlighting the need for critical and place-based approaches that are sensitive to local and regional variability in COVID-19 processes and impacts.

author list (cited authors)

  • McLafferty, S. L., Guhlincozzi, A., & Winata, F.

complete list of authors

  • McLafferty, Sara L||Guhlincozzi, Aida||Winata, Fikriyah

editor list (cited editors)

  • Andrews, G. J., Crooks, V. A., Pearce, J. R., & Messina, J. P.

Book Title

  • COVID-19 and Similar Futures

publication date

  • 2021