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COVID-19: a relook at healthcare systems and aged populations
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Giang, L-T and Vo, D-T and Vuong, Q-H, COVID-19: a relook at healthcare systems and aged populations, Sustainability, 12 Article 4200. ISSN 2071-1050 (2020) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Using data from the WHO’s Situation Report on the COVID-19 pandemic from
21 January 2020 to 30 March 2020 along with other health, demographic, and macroeconomic
indicators from the WHO’s Application Programming Interface and the World Bank’s Development
Indicators, this paper explores the death rates of infected persons and their possible associated
factors. Through the panel analysis, we found consistent results that healthcare system conditions,
particularly the number of hospital beds and medical staff, have played extremely important roles
in reducing death rates of COVID-19 infected persons. In addition, both the mortality rates due to
di erent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and rate of people aged 65 and over were significantly
related to the death rates. We also found that controlling international and domestic travelling by air
along with increasingly popular anti-COVID-19 actions (i.e., quarantine and social distancing) would
help reduce the death rates in all countries. We conducted tests for robustness and found that the
Driscoll and Kraay (1998) method was the most suitable estimator with a finite sample, which helped
confirm the robustness of our estimations. Based on the findings, we suggest that preparedness
of healthcare systems for aged populations need more attentions from the public and politicians,
regardless of income level, when facing COVID-19-like pandemics.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | COVID-19, healthcare systems, aged populations |
| Research Division: | Biomedical and Clinical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Cardiovascular medicine and haematology |
| Research Field: | Respiratory diseases |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health) |
| Objective Field: | Health related to ageing |
| UTAS Author: | Giang, L-T (Associate Professor Long Giang) |
| ID Code: | 139104 |
| Year Published: | 2020 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 2 |
| Deposited By: | Menzies Institute for Medical Research |
| Deposited On: | 2020-05-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2020-06-12 |
| Downloads: | 9 View Download Statistics |
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