RT Book, Section T1 Health Geography of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic During Its First Phase in the Compact Cities of Barcelona and Madrid A1 Pallares-Barbera, Montserrat A1 Sánchez Moral, Simón Guillermo A1 Vicente Salar, Rafael A1 Arellano Espinar, Francisco Alfonso A2 Brunn, Stanley D. A2 Gilbreath, Donna AB COVID-19 has affected every aspect of life around the globe. To understand the spread of disease it is essential to record location and place, space and population. This chapter is based in history and the epidemiologist literature reporting the relevant variables. The objective is to determine which variable affects contagion in compact cities such as Barcelona and Madrid. Are both cities affected by the same variables? Are there differences between the cities? Why? The set of variables involves the socioeconomic conditions of the population, aging populations and neighborhood conditions. The Global and Local Moran’s I tools for spatial autocorrelation are used as well as spatial autoregressive models (SAR). Population movements within compact territories might produce a distortion in research results if not accounted for. In the planning strategy, inequalities, society and health treated as a system might improve the foundations for living conditions and health. PB Springer Cham YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112885 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112885 LA eng NO Pallares-Barbera, M., Sánchez-Moral, S., Vicente-Salar, R., Arellano, A. (2022). Health Geography of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic during its First Phase in the Compact Cities of Barcelona and Madrid, Spain. In: Brunn, S.D., Gilbreath, D. (eds) COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_20 DS Docta Complutense RD 13 abr 2025