An Analysis of Key Impulses Affecting the Intensification of Infectious Diseases and Covid 19 on Health Geography in Rural Area (Case Study: Villages Fahliyan- Mamasani County

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1 Assistant Proffesor Geography and Rural Planning, MArvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University

2 Phd in Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University Ahvaz. Ahvaz

Abstract

Half of the world's population now lives in rural and remote areas. Rural communities have fewer health facilities than urban communities and have less access to health care, including limited access to virus testing and health centers. While we have not yet seen a significant negative impact of this problem in rural areas, this growing concern is due to the fact that about 26% of the population of Iran lives in rural areas and has different access to urban communities. Experience health care there. It is important to consider the factors involved in the social resilience of these communities in response to COVID-19 and future infectious diseases. Large and local epidemics alike affect the destiny of nations and the progress of civilization, determine empires, and make infections the actors in the history of human drama. The present study, in terms of applied purpose, has been done in terms of method-survey at the exploratory level and based on the futures research approach. The present study, by implementing the resilience framework, provides a more comprehensive approach to optimizing containment programs and mitigation policies using effective indicators in rural social resilience with a case study of Fahlian village with the approach Provides future research on the prevalence of epidemics. The propulsive forces are determined by the Delphi method, and then these factors are determined based on the degree of importance and uncertainty, prioritization, and the most critical factors, and software (Micmac) is used to write possible scenarios. The results indicate that the variables of poor diet, lack of income, poor health facilities, inactivity, lifestyle, ability to compensate, inflation, inefficient management and poverty, in the village of Fahlian as the most important variables affecting resilience Socially identified in response to the spread of infectious diseases and coronary heart disease.

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Community Development (Rural and Urban)
Volume 12, Issue 2
March 2021
Pages 557-585

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