The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the natural environment and
orthopedic diseases based on remote sensing in Zhejiang Province, China. The Landsat 8 OLI images
were employed to extract environmental factors such as the vegetation, water, and urban indices.
Combined with the distribution data of patients of different ages diagnosed with different types of
orthopedic diseases, derived from the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of
Medicine, we analyzed the spatial distribution relationship and evaluated the natural environmental
factors around the distribution sites of the patients. The results showed that the vegetation index (NDVI)
is negatively correlated with the prevalence of hospital visits, whereas the water index (MNDWI)
is positively correlated. And urban index (IBI) is positively correlated but unstable. The analysis and
evaluation of the impact of natural environmental factors related to the patient on orthopedic diseases
show that the risk of orthopedic disease might be associated with less vegetation and
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Impact of surface features on land surface thermal environment in eastern Zhejiang Sijie Shen, Wenyuan Wu, Shuaijun Huang, Luoxi Yan, Xiaonan Zhang, Yinan Liu, Jia Sun, Jiayi Yang, Junfeng Xu Advances in Space Research
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