Research Progress and Improvement Ideas of Anti-Epidemic Resilience in China's Urban Communities

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 19;19(22):15293. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215293.

Abstract

In the post-epidemic era, China's urban communities are at the forefront of implementing the whole chain of accurate epidemic prevention and control. However, the uncertainty of COVID-19, the loopholes in community management and people's overly optimistic judgment of the epidemic have led to the frequent rebound of the epidemic and serious consequences. Existing studies have not yet formed a panoramic framework of community anti-epidemic work under the concept of resilience. Therefore, this article first summarizes the current research progress of resilient communities from three perspectives, including ideas and perspectives, theories and frameworks and methods and means, and summarizes the gap of the current research. Then, an innovative idea on the epidemic resilience of urban communities in China is put forward: (1) the evolution mechanism of community anti-epidemic resilience is described through the change law of dynamic networks; (2) the anti-epidemic resilience of urban communities is evaluated or predicted through the measurement criteria; (3) a simulation platform based on Multi-Agent and dynamic Bayesian networks simulates the interactive relationship between "epidemic disturbance-cost constraint--epidemic resilience"; (4) the anti-epidemic strategies are output intelligently to provide community managers with decision-making opinions on community epidemic prevention and control.

Keywords: COVID-19; anti-epidemic resilience; computational experiments; dynamic network; urban communities.

Publication types

  • Review
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bayes Theorem
  • COVID-19* / epidemiology
  • COVID-19* / prevention & control
  • China / epidemiology
  • Epidemics* / prevention & control
  • Humans

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 72204113), the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education (grant number: 21YJC630017), the Jiangsu Social Science Fund (grant number: 21GLC001) and the Innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students in Jiangsu Province (grant number: 2022NFUSPITP0118).