The hierarchical diagnosis and treatment reform of China can guide residents to seek medical treatment in an orderly manner and improve access to medical treatment. Most existing studies on hierarchical diagnosis and treatment used accessibility as the evaluation index to determine the referral rate between hospitals. However, the blind pursuit of accessibility will cause the problem of uneven utilization efficiency of hospitals at different levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUrban ecological environment is the basis of citizens' survival and development. A rapid and objective urban ecological environment assessment (UEEA) plays an important role in the urban sustainable development and environment protection. This study established an improved urban ecological comfort index (UECI), which is based on our previous UECI and fully composed of four remote sensing indicators: normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference built-up index (NDBI), land surface temperature (LST), and aerosol optical depth (AOD), representing the greenness, dryness, heat, and atmospheric turbidity, respectively.
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