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Damrongplasit K, Melnick G. Utilisation, out-of-pocket payments and access before and after COVID-19: Thailand's Universal Health Coverage Scheme. BMJ Glob Health 2024; 9:e015179. [PMID: 38740495 PMCID: PMC11097804 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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The goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is that everyone needing healthcare can access quality services without financial hardship. Recent research covering countries with UHC systems documents the emergence, and acceleration following the COVID-19 pandemic of unapproved informal payment systems by providers that collect under-the-table payments from patients. In 2001, Thailand extended its '30 Baht' government-financed coverage to all uninsured people with little or no cost sharing. In this paper, we update the literature on the performance of Thailand's Universal Health Coverage Scheme (UCS) with data covering 2019 (pre-COVID-19) through 2021. We find that access to care for Thailand's UCS-covered population (53 million) is similar to access provided to populations covered by the other major public health insurance schemes covering government and private sector workers, and that, unlike reports from other UHC countries, no evidence that informal side payments have emerged, even in the face of COVID-19 related pressures. However, we do find that nearly one out of eight Thailand's UCS-covered patients seek care outside the UCS delivery system where they will incur out-of-pocket payments. This finding predates the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests the need for further research into the performance of the UHC-sponsored delivery system.
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- Kannika Damrongplasit
- Faculty of Economics and Center of Excellence for Health Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Sol Price School of Public Policy and Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Usher AD. Organisations vie for control over pandemic financing. Lancet 2024; 403:1839-1840. [PMID: 38735290 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)00971-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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Webb EJD, Conaghan PG, Henderson M, Hulme C, Kingsbury SR, Munyombwe T, West R, Martin A. Long-term health conditions and UK labour market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0302746. [PMID: 38728340 PMCID: PMC11086911 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Long-term health conditions can affect labour market outcomes. COVID-19 may have increased labour market inequalities, e.g. due to restricted opportunities for clinically vulnerable people. Evaluating COVID-19's impact could help target support. AIM To quantify the effect of several long-term conditions on UK labour market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic and compare them to pre-pandemic outcomes. METHODS The Understanding Society COVID-19 survey collected responses from around 20,000 UK residents in nine waves from April 2020-September 2021. Participants employed in January/February 2020 with a variety of long-term conditions were matched with people without the condition but with similar baseline characteristics. Models estimated probability of employment, hours worked and earnings. We compared these results with results from a two-year pre-pandemic period. We also modelled probability of furlough and home-working frequency during COVID-19. RESULTS Most conditions (asthma, arthritis, emotional/nervous/psychiatric problems, vascular/pulmonary/liver conditions, epilepsy) were associated with reduced employment probability and/or hours worked during COVID-19, but not pre-pandemic. Furlough was more likely for people with pulmonary conditions. People with arthritis and cancer were slower to return to in-person working. Few effects were seen for earnings. CONCLUSION COVID-19 had a disproportionate impact on people with long-term conditions' labour market outcomes.
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- Edward J. D. Webb
- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Health & Community Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Kawakatsu Y, Damptey O, Sitor J, Situma R, Aballo J, Shetye M, Aiga H. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on food availability and affordability: an interrupted time series analysis in Ghana. BMC Public Health 2024; 24:1268. [PMID: 38720254 PMCID: PMC11080309 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-18745-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND In Africa, approx. 675 million people were at risk of food insecurity. COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have exacerbated this situation, by damaging populations' access to and affordability of foods. This study is aimed at estimating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on availability and prices of essential food commodities at 20 large markets in Ghana. METHODS Data on food availability and food retail prices collected through weekly market-level data during the period from July 2017 to September 2020 were used in this study. We performed interrupted time-series analyses and estimated the percentage increases between the observed and predicted food prices by food group and by region to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on food prices. RESULTS As a result, the impact of COVID-19 on food availability was limited. However, the results of interrupted time-series analyses indicate a significant increase in overall mean food prices in Greater Accra, Eastern and Upper East regions. It was also found that mean price of starchy roots, tubers and plantains significantly increased across regions. DISCUSSION The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on food availability and prices was significant but varied by food type and regions in Ghana. Continuous monitoring and responses are critical to maintain food availability and affordability.
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- United Nations World Food Programme, Accra, Ghana
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- UNICEF, 4 - 8th Rangoon Close Cantonments, Accra, Ghana
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- UNICEF, 4 - 8th Rangoon Close Cantonments, Accra, Ghana
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- School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Muntendorf LK, Brettschneider C, Konnopka A, König HH. [Updating standardized unit costs from a societal perspective for health economic evaluation]. Gesundheitswesen 2024; 86:389-393. [PMID: 38316405 PMCID: PMC11077543 DOI: 10.1055/a-2169-1480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this work was to update the 2015 unit costs (UC) for the monetary valuation of health-related resource use from a societal perspective for the years 2019 and 2020 in Germany. METHODS The update follows the methodology of Bock et al. 2015. Based on the newly established care levels, UC for care degree 1 to 5 are now provided. To account for change in price trends during the Covid-19 pandemic, average growth rates in UC are shown from 2011-2019 and compared to 2019-2020. RESULTS Updates of UC for the outpatient medical sector, remedies and aids, hospitals, (in)formal care services, and rehabilitation for 2019 and 2020 are provided. CONCLUSION The updated UC can be used as reference values for the monetary valuation of individual resource use in health economic evaluations in Germany.
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- Louisa-Kristin Muntendorf
- Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und
Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg,
Germany
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- Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und
Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg,
Germany
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- Professur für Gesundheitsökonomie und
Gesundheitsmanagement, MSH Medical School Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
and Medical University, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie und
Versorgungsforschung, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg,
Germany
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Tayib S. Reflections on inequalities: the pandemic, cost-of-living crisis, and vaccines. Perspect Public Health 2024; 144:133-136. [PMID: 38757937 DOI: 10.1177/17579139241249318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Duran-Fernandez R, Bernal-Serrano D, Garcia-Huitron JA, Hutubessy R. Financing for pandemic preparedness and response measures: a systematic scoping review. Bull World Health Organ 2024; 102:314-322F. [PMID: 38680465 PMCID: PMC11046164 DOI: 10.2471/blt.23.290207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
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Objective To obtain insights into reducing the shortfall in financing for pandemic preparedness and response measures, and reducing the risk of another pandemic with social and economic costs comparable to those of the coronavirus disease. Methods We conducted a systematic scoping review using the databases ScienceDirect, Scopus, JSTOR, PubMed® and EconLit. We included articles published in any language until 1 August 2023, and excluded grey literature and publications on epidemics. We categorized eligible studies according to the elements of a framework proposed by the World Health Organization Council on the Economy of Health for All: (i) root/structural causes; (ii) social position/foundations; (iii) infrastructure and systems; and (iv) communities, households and individuals. Findings Of the 188 initially identified articles, we included 60 in our review. Most (53/60) were published after 2020, when academic interest had shifted towards global financing mechanisms. Most (37/60) addressed two or more of the council framework elements. The most frequently addressed element was infrastructure and systems (54/60), discussing topics such as health systems, financial markets and innovation ecosystems. The roots/structural causes were discussed in 25 articles; communities, households and individuals in 22 articles; and social positions/foundations in 11. Conclusion Our review identified three important gaps: a formal definition of pandemic preparedness and response, impeding the accurate quantification of the financing shortfall; research on the extent to which financing for pandemic preparedness and response has been targeted at the most vulnerable households; and an analysis of specific financial instruments and an evaluation of the feasibility of their implementation.
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- Roberto Duran-Fernandez
- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Eugenio Garza Lagüera y, Av. Rufino Tamayo, Valle Oriente, San Pedro Garza García 66269, Mexico
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- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Eugenio Garza Lagüera y, Av. Rufino Tamayo, Valle Oriente, San Pedro Garza García 66269, Mexico
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- Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yuan JL, Jing N. The financial risk of real estate combined factor analysis with grey prediction in Liaoning Province. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301526. [PMID: 38687809 PMCID: PMC11060575 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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The importance of real estate development has been widely accepted by all countries. Through early warning and avoidance of real estate financial risks, it can effectively promote the healthy and healthy development of the real estate industry, avoiding the impact of accidental factors, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and promoting the overall economic development. Based on multiple regression analysis and grey prediction methods, this article constructs a real estate financial risk estimation model, and the real estate financial risk is estimated using the relevant data of Liaoning Province from 2001 to 2020. Analyzing the research results of financial risks in Liaoning Province, we can find that the real estate financial risks reached the peak in 2013, and then the real estate financial risks gradually showed a slow decline trend. In general, the financial risks in Liaoning Province are controllable. The study of financial risks in Liaoning Province will help to judge the development of the real estate industry and promote the continuous improvement of the overall economy. The article, through the study of real estate financial risks in Liaoning Province, can promote the development of regional real estate in Liaoning Province and promote the overall economic development of Liaoning Province, which has strong practical significance. The study of real estate financial risks, relevant risk research theories can be enriched, the identification of financial risks can be improved, and the study of real estate financial risks can be strengthened. The article uses a combination of multivariate statistics and grey fuzzy theory to complete the study of real estate financial risks. Therefore, through the exploration of multivariate statistics and grey fuzzy theory, its application value can be elevated.
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- Jian-Lin Yuan
- School of Management, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, 121001, China
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- Tangshan Letters and Calls Bureau of Hebei Province, Tangshan, 063000, China
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Mahmood H, Furqan M, Meraj G, Shahid Hassan M. The effects of COVID-19 on agriculture supply chain, food security, and environment: a review. PeerJ 2024; 12:e17281. [PMID: 38680897 PMCID: PMC11048076 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
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COVID-19 has a deep impact on the economic, environmental, and social life of the global population. Particularly, it disturbed the entire agriculture supply chain due to a shortage of labor, travel restrictions, and changes in demand during lockdowns. Consequently, the world population faced food insecurity due to a reduction in food production and booming food prices. Low-income households face food security challenges because of limited income generation during the pandemic. Thus, there is a need to understand comprehensive strategies to meet the complex challenges faced by the food industry and marginalized people in developing countries. This research is intended to review the agricultural supply chain, global food security, and environmental dynamics of COVID-19 by exploring the most significant literature in this domain. Due to lockdowns and reduced industrial production, positive environmental effects are achieved through improved air and water quality and reduced noise pollution globally. However, negative environmental effects emerged due to increasing medical waste, packaging waste, and plastic pollution due to disruptions in recycling operations. There is extensive literature on the effects of COVID-19 on the environment and food security. This study is an effort to review the existing literature to understand the net effects of the pandemic on the environment and food security. The literature suggested adopting innovative policies and strategies to protect the global food supply chain and achieve economic recovery with environmental sustainability. For instance, food productivity should be increased by using modern agriculture technologies to ensure food security. The government should provide food to vulnerable populations during the pandemic. Trade restrictions should be removed for food trade to improve international collaboration for food security. On the environmental side, the government should increase recycling plants during the pandemic to control waste and plastic pollution.
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- Haider Mahmood
- Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Saudi Arabia
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- College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Economics and Statistics, Dr. Hassan Murad School of Management, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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Hoover A, Watson D, Reimche P, Tanner L, Gilchrist L, Finch M, Messinger YH, Turcotte LM. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization and cost for care of pediatric and young adult ALL. BMC Res Notes 2024; 17:112. [PMID: 38644484 PMCID: PMC11034092 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-024-06768-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood malignancy and among the most common malignancies in young adults and requires a unique pattern of healthcare utilization including an acute/emergent presentation and an intensive initial 8 months of therapy followed by two years of outpatient treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive global disruptions in healthcare use and delivery. This report aims to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the presentation, diagnosis and continued management of childhood and young adult ALL in regard to utilization and cost of care among commercially insured individuals in the United States. RESULTS Utilizing a commercial insurance claims database, 529 pediatric and young adult patients were identified who were diagnosed with ALL between January 2016 and March 2021. New diagnoses were evaluated by era and demographics. Utilization was measured by COVID-related era as number of inpatient and outpatient encounters, inpatient days, and cumulative cost during the initial 8 months of therapy. None of these cost or utilization factors changed significantly during or shortly after the pandemic. These findings reinforce that the necessary care for pediatric and young adult ALL was unwavering despite the massive shifts in the healthcare system caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This provides a valuable benchmark as we further examine the factors that influence the pandemic's impact on health equity and access to care, especially in vulnerable pediatric and young adult populations. This is the first investigation of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization and cost of care in pediatric and young adult cancer.
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- Alex Hoover
- Optum Labs Visiting Fellow, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota Medical School, Mayo Mail Code 366, 420 Delaware St SE, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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- Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Optum Labs Visiting Fellow, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota Medical School, Mayo Mail Code 366, 420 Delaware St SE, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Zamanzadeh A, Cavoli T, Ghasemi M, Rokni L. The effect of actual and expected income shocks on mental wellbeing: Evidence from three East Asian countries during COVID-19. Econ Hum Biol 2024; 53:101378. [PMID: 38593608 DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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This paper evaluates the effects of economic shocks to current and expected income reduction on mental wellbeing. We use individual-level data from three East Asian countries; China, Japan, and South Korea, during the early phases of the pandemic when the COVID-induced economic shocks were severe. The findings reveal significant causal effects from current and expected income reduction on different aspects of mental health deterioration, including anxiety, trouble sleeping, boredom, and loneliness. Interestingly, we found that expectations of future income loss have a significantly larger effect on people's mental wellbeing compared to current falls in income. This has significant implications for the design of policies to support income during pandemics.
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- Akbar Zamanzadeh
- Business School, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion (CMVI), University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Business School, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion (CMVI), University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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- Faculty of Business and Economics, Girne American University, Kyrenia, Cyprus
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- Asia Contents Institute, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, South Korea
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Cerezo A, Rivera DB, Sanchez D, Torres L, Carlos Chavez FL, Drabble LA. Examining COVID-19 pandemic-related economic and household stress and its association with mental health, alcohol, and substance use in a national sample of Latinx sexual minority and heterosexual adults. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 2024; 30:385-394. [PMID: 37199960 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Sexual minority adults of Latinx descent faced compounded intersectional stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic across socioeconomic and health domains. Latinx people have experienced some of the highest COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates in the United States in addition to significant economic challenges. Yet, current data have not observed the unique pandemic-related experiences of sexual minority Latinx (SML) adults. We examined sexual identity differences in economic and household stress, social support, mental health symptomatology (depression, anxiety), alcohol, and substance use among sexual minority and nonsexual minority Latinx adults in the United States. METHOD Primary data were collected via the AmeriSpeak panel, a national probability sample of U.S.-based 2,286 Latinx adults [sexual minority = .34% (n = 465)]. Data were collected from November 2020 to January 2021, during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS SML adults endorsed higher levels of economic and household stress, mental health symptomatology, and alcohol and substance use than nonsexual minority Latinx adults. Economic stress was associated with increased mental health symptomatology, alcohol, and substance use among SML adults. Social support moderated the association between economic stress and mental health symptomatology and substance use, but not alcohol use. CONCLUSION Findings highlighted unique intersectional considerations among SML adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the importance of social support and the negative toll of economic stress on mental health and substance use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Alison Cerezo
- Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University
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Doran Á, Colvin CL, McLaughlin E. What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature. Soc Sci Med 2024; 342:116534. [PMID: 38184966 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023, with the final review encompassing 169 research papers selected for their relevance to understanding either the demographic or economic impact of pandemics. We include literature from across disciplines to maximise our knowledge base, finding many relevant articles in journals which would not normally be on the radar of social scientists. Our review identifies two gaps in the literature: (1) the need to study pandemics and their effects more collectively rather than looking at them in isolation; and (2) the need for more study of pandemics besides 1918 Spanish Influenza, especially milder pandemic episodes. These gaps are a consequence of academics working in silos, failing to draw on the skills and knowledge offered by other disciplines. Synthesising existing knowledge on pandemics in one place provides a basis upon which to identify the lessons in preparing for future catastrophic disease events.
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- Áine Doran
- Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Ulster University, 2-24 York Street, Belfast, BT15 1AP, UK.
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- Department of Economics, Queen's University Belfast, Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5EE, UK.
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- Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK.
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Lu ZN, Gao Z, Hao Y. The economic consequence of large-scale epidemic outbreak: The path and loss evaluation of COVID-19 in China based on input-output analysis. Glob Public Health 2024; 19:2341403. [PMID: 38659107 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2024.2341403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted China's economic and social development. Understanding the direct and indirect effects of the epidemic on the economy is vital for formulating scientifically grounded epidemic management policies. This study assesses the economic losses and influence paths of a large-scale epidemic in China. We proposed three COVID-19 scenarios - serious, normal, and mild - to evaluate the direct economic impact on China's GDP from a demand perspective. An input-output model was used to estimate the indirect impact. Our findings show that China's GDP could lose 94,206, 75,365, and 56,524 hundred million yuan under serious, normal, and mild scenarios, respectively, with corresponding GDP decline rates of 9.27%, 7.42%, and 5.56%. Under the normal scenario, indirect economic loss and total loss are projected at 75,364 and 489,386 hundred million yuan, respectively. Additionally, the pandemic led to a reduction in carbon emissions: direct emissions decreased by 1,218.69 million tons, indirect emissions by 9,594.32 million tons, and total emissions by 10,813.01 million tons across various industries. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of the pandemic.
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- Zhi-Nan Lu
- Interventional Center of Valvular Heart Disease, Capital Medical University, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Economics and Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Development Research Centre of Beijing New Modern Industrial Area, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Talana ALE, Quensell ML, Peltzer NK, Thompson MD, Stupplebeen D, Pirkle CM, Keliikoa LB. Examining Mental Health and Economic Consequences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Filipino Residents in Hawai'i: May - Oct 2020. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf 2024; 83:16-24. [PMID: 38223464 PMCID: PMC10782392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in rapid and drastic changes to daily lives, posing a threat to residents' mental health and well-being. Filipinos are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and have one of the highest COVID-19 prevalence in Hawai'i. The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with a rise in mental health concerns, yet little is known about the impact on the mental health of Filipinos in Hawai'i. Using publicly available polling data from the SMS Community Pulse Survey, this study sought to describe the mental distress experienced by Filipino residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from an online panel of Hawai'i residents over 4 timepoints (May 5-10; June 11-17; July 31-August 8; October 19-31, 2020). Compared to non-Filipinos, a higher proportion of Filipinos reported feeling stress and sadness during 3 of the 4 timepoints. Across all timepoints, Filipinos were more likely to respond affirmatively to mental health indicators (62.5%). Similarly, Filipinos reported food insecurity in higher proportions relative to non-Filipinos in most timepoints, particularly notable in Timepoint 4 where 33.0% of Filipino respondents reported food insecurity. These findings suggest that Filipinos would benefit from social policy and community-supported initiatives to address social determinants of health, reduce chronic stress, and prevent further mental health disparities.
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- Angel Lynn E. Talana
- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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- Office of Public Health Studies, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
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Lazarus JV, Romero D, Kopka CJ, Karim SA, Abu-Raddad LJ, Almeida G, Baptista-Leite R, Barocas JA, Barreto ML, Bar-Yam Y, Bassat Q, Batista C, Bazilian M, Chiou ST, Del Rio C, Dore GJ, Gao GF, Gostin LO, Hellard M, Jimenez JL, Kang G, Lee N, Matičič M, McKee M, Nsanzimana S, Oliu-Barton M, Pradelski B, Pyzik O, Rabin K, Raina S, Rashid SF, Rathe M, Saenz R, Singh S, Trock-Hempler M, Villapol S, Yap P, Binagwaho A, Kamarulzaman A, El-Mohandes A. A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat. Nature 2022; 611:332-345. [PMID: 36329272 PMCID: PMC9646517 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05398-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic1,2. Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governmental organization, government and other experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries and territories to recommend specific actions to end this persistent global threat to public health. The panel developed a set of 41 consensus statements and 57 recommendations to governments, health systems, industry and other key stakeholders across six domains: communication; health systems; vaccination; prevention; treatment and care; and inequities. In the wake of nearly three years of fragmented global and national responses, it is instructive to note that three of the highest-ranked recommendations call for the adoption of whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches1, while maintaining proven prevention measures using a vaccines-plus approach2 that employs a range of public health and financial support measures to complement vaccination. Other recommendations with at least 99% combined agreement advise governments and other stakeholders to improve communication, rebuild public trust and engage communities3 in the management of pandemic responses. The findings of the study, which have been further endorsed by 184 organizations globally, include points of unanimous agreement, as well as six recommendations with >5% disagreement, that provide health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.
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- Jeffrey V Lazarus
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York City, NY, USA.
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- City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York City, NY, USA
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- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation-Education City, Doha, Qatar
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- UNITE Global Parliamentarians Network, Lisbon, Portugal
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Institute of Health Sciences (CIIS), Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
- Manhiça Health Research Center (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique
- Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Biomedical Research Consortium in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland
- Baraka Impact Finance, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Illnesses, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Grenoble, France
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- City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York City, NY, USA
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- Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR), Geneva, Switzerland
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- City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), New York City, NY, USA
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Pang Y. A theory of fiscal policy response to an epidemic. Health Econ 2022; 31:2050-2071. [PMID: 35771194 PMCID: PMC9349544 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Governments worldwide have issued massive amounts of debt to inject fiscal stimulus during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyzes fiscal responses to an epidemic, in which interactions at work increase the risk of disease and mortality. Fiscal policies, which are designed to borrow against the future and provide transfers to individuals suffering economic hardship, can facilitate consumption smoothing while reduce hours worked and hence mitigate infections. We examine the optimal fiscal policy and characterize the condition under which fiscal policy improves social welfare. We then extend the model analyzing the static and dynamic pecuniary externalities under scale economies-the decrease in labor supply during the epidemic lowers the contemporaneous average wage rate while enhances the post-epidemic workforce health and productivity. We suggest that fiscal policy may not work effectively unless the government coordinates working time, and the optimal size of public debt is affected by production technology and disease severity and transmissibility.
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- Yu Pang
- School of BusinessMacau University of Science and TechnologyTaipaMacau
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Schwandt H, Currie J, von Wachter T, Kowarski J, Chapman D, Woolf SH. Changes in the Relationship Between Income and Life Expectancy Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, California, 2015-2021. JAMA 2022; 328:360-366. [PMID: 35797033 PMCID: PMC9264223 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.10952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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IMPORTANCE The COVID-19 pandemic caused a large decrease in US life expectancy in 2020, but whether a similar decrease occurred in 2021 and whether the relationship between income and life expectancy intensified during the pandemic are unclear. OBJECTIVE To measure changes in life expectancy in 2020 and 2021 and the relationship between income and life expectancy by race and ethnicity. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective ecological analysis of deaths in California in 2015 to 2021 to calculate state- and census tract-level life expectancy. Tracts were grouped by median household income (MHI), obtained from the American Community Survey, and the slope of the life expectancy-income gradient was compared by year and by racial and ethnic composition. EXPOSURES California in 2015 to 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and 2020 to 2021 (during the COVID-19 pandemic). MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Life expectancy at birth. RESULTS California experienced 1 988 606 deaths during 2015 to 2021, including 654 887 in 2020 to 2021. State life expectancy declined from 81.40 years in 2019 to 79.20 years in 2020 and 78.37 years in 2021. MHI data were available for 7962 of 8057 census tracts (98.8%; n = 1 899 065 deaths). Mean MHI ranged from $21 279 to $232 261 between the lowest and highest percentiles. The slope of the relationship between life expectancy and MHI increased significantly, from 0.075 (95% CI, 0.07-0.08) years per percentile in 2019 to 0.103 (95% CI, 0.098-0.108; P < .001) years per percentile in 2020 and 0.107 (95% CI, 0.102-0.112; P < .001) years per percentile in 2021. The gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest percentiles increased from 11.52 years in 2019 to 14.67 years in 2020 and 15.51 years in 2021. Among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian, Black, and White populations, life expectancy declined 5.74 years among the Hispanic population, 3.04 years among the non-Hispanic Asian population, 3.84 years among the non-Hispanic Black population, and 1.90 years among the non-Hispanic White population between 2019 and 2021. The income-life expectancy gradient in these groups increased significantly between 2019 and 2020 (0.038 [95% CI, 0.030-0.045; P < .001] years per percentile among Hispanic individuals; 0.024 [95% CI: 0.005-0.044; P = .02] years per percentile among Asian individuals; 0.015 [95% CI, 0.010-0.020; P < .001] years per percentile among Black individuals; and 0.011 [95% CI, 0.007-0.015; P < .001] years per percentile among White individuals) and between 2019 and 2021 (0.033 [95% CI, 0.026-0.040; P < .001] years per percentile among Hispanic individuals; 0.024 [95% CI, 0.010-0.038; P = .002] years among Asian individuals; 0.024 [95% CI, 0.011-0.037; P = .003] years per percentile among Black individuals; and 0.013 [95% CI, 0.008-0.018; P < .001] years per percentile among White individuals). The increase in the gradient was significantly greater among Hispanic vs White populations in 2020 and 2021 (P < .001 in both years) and among Black vs White populations in 2021 (P = .04). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This retrospective analysis of census tract-level income and mortality data in California from 2015 to 2021 demonstrated a decrease in life expectancy in both 2020 and 2021 and an increase in the life expectancy gap by income level relative to the prepandemic period that disproportionately affected some racial and ethnic minority populations. Inferences at the individual level are limited by the ecological nature of the study, and the generalizability of the findings outside of California are unknown.
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- Hannes Schwandt
- School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
- California Policy Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
- California Policy Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond
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- Center on Society and Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond
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Hsu J, Fung V, Newhouse JP. Expiration of Pandemic-Related Marketplace Insurance Policies: Implications for Affordability and Coverage. JAMA 2022; 327:2187-2188. [PMID: 35594053 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.8318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- John Hsu
- Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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Khan MA, Naqvi HA, Hakeem MM, Din GMU, Iqbal N. Economic and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:15703-15712. [PMID: 34636009 PMCID: PMC8504559 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16894-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The world is facing a COVID-19 pandemic outbreak with an unprecedented and enormous impact on the lives of humankind. The economic engine has suffered a big blow in economic and financial performance in all the regions. South Asian countries are also trying to cope with the challenges posed by the pandemic. This paper attempts to understand the severity of the pandemic, the responses by the governments of the region, and the way forward. The pandemic affected the services, manufacturing, trade, supply chain, and particularly the small businesses, which disrupted all the economic indicators, forecasts, and growth patterns. The paper also discusses the strategies devised by the countries to counter the shocks of pandemics and what new opportunities are identified under the circumstances.
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Ríos V, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Barquera S. Association between living in municipalities with high crowding conditions and poverty and mortality from COVID-19 in Mexico. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0264137. [PMID: 35192660 PMCID: PMC8863291 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background The World Health Organization stated a pandemic by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus SARS-Cov2 (COVID-19) on March, 2020 with devastating implications for populations, healthcare systems, and economies globally. Objective The present study explores the association between patients living in municipalities with crowding conditions and poverty and mortality from COVID-19 in Mexico; specifically evaluating the socioeconomic characteristics of the municipality in which the patients reside and some individual characteristics. Methods In the present study, we examined public information collected from the National Epidemiological Surveillance System informing all persons tested for SARS-CoV-2 and published by the Ministry of Health. The present analysis was restricted to those with the date of registration to October 12, 2021. The association between the main exposures (overcrowded conditions and poverty) and the outcomes of interest (death by COVID-19) was explored using Cox proportional hazard regression models, including frailty penalties to accommodate multilevel data and random effects for the municipality of case occurrence. Results A total of 9619917 subjects were included in the Epidemiological Surveillance System for viral respiratory disease platform. Of those for which results were available, 6141403 were negative for COVID-19 and 3478514 were positive for COVID-19; with a total of 273216 deaths in those who tested positive. Among those positive to COVID-19 mean age was 46.9. Patients living in municipalities with high rates of crowding conditions increased the risk of dying from COVID-19 by 8% (95% CI: 1.03, 1.14). Individuals living in municipalities with indigenous background was associated with an increased risk of dying from COVID-19 (HR = 1.10; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.17). Individuals living in municipalities with illiteracy (HR = 1.09; 95% CI: 1.03, 1.11), poverty (HR = 1.17; 95% CI: 1.14, 1.19), food insecurity (HR = 1.094; 95% CI 1.02, 1.06), limited access to social security (HR = 1.10; 95% CI: 1.08, 1.13) and health services (HR = 1.06; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.08) had a higher risk of mortality from COVID-19. Conclusion Our data suggest that patients living in municipalities with higher rates of crowding conditions and higher rates of poverty had elevated risk of mortality from COVID-19. In Mexico, the COVID-19 pandemic is a systemic crisis linked to human development since we have seen that it affects less developed and more vulnerable municipalities. Policies to reduce vulnerabilities and develop strategies to deal with health crises like the current one needs to be considered.
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- Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
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Galanakis CM, Brunori G, Chiaramonti D, Matthews R, Panoutsou C, Fritsche UR. Bioeconomy and green recovery in a post-COVID-19 era. Sci Total Environ 2022; 808:152180. [PMID: 34883168 PMCID: PMC8647344 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a health crisis and repetitive lockdowns that disrupted different economic and societal segments. As the world has placed hope on the vaccination progress to bring back the socio-economic "normal," this article explores how the bioeconomy can enhance the resilience and sustainability of bio-based, food, and energy systems in the post-COVID-19 era. The proposed recovery approach integrates technological innovations, environment, ecosystem services, "biocities," food, rural economies, and tourism. The importance of integrating culture, arts, and the fashion industry as part of the recovery is underlined towards building a better bioeconomy that, together with environmental safeguards, promotes socio-cultural and economic innovations. This integration could be achieved supporting communities and stakeholders to diversify their activities by combining sustainable production with decarbonization, stimulating private investments in this direction and monitoring the resulting impact of mitigation measures. Food systems should become more resilient in order to allow adapting rapidly to severe crises and future shocks, while it is important to increase circularity towards the valorization of waste, the integration of different processes within the biorefinery concept and the production of bio-based products and biofuels.
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- Charis M Galanakis
- Research & Innovation Department, Galanakis Laboratories, Chania, Greece; Food Waste Recovery Group, ISEKI Food Association, Vienna, Austria.
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- International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS), Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Henrique Lopes
- Public Health Unit of the Institute of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh
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- Wolverhampton University
- Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
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Lukáč J, Olexová C, Kudlová Z. Factors predicting companies' crisis in the engineering industry from the point of view of financial analysis. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0264016. [PMID: 35180268 PMCID: PMC9116989 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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A key factor for business management is the assessment of the financial situation of companies. Nowadays, it is essential to monitor the liquidity crisis, which is closely linked to corporate crises. The aim of the paper is to analyse a selected sector of the economy from the perspective of the corporate crisis and to identify the factors of crisis. More than 2000 engineering companies in Slovakia were analysed during the period from 2015 to 2019 with the aim of analysing financial results, especially in the area of financial forecast for the future. In the analysis, statistical testing of the significance of relationships using the Spearman correlation coefficient, the significance of differences by the power of t-test, regression and clustering were used. A significant part of the paper is the analysis of selected indicators of the company's crisis-Altman's Z score and the IN05 index. The results indicate that engineering companies in Slovakia are achieving good results and their financial situation is improving within the years between 2015-2019. The results can also be used as a starting point for research concerning the impact of COVID-19 in this area. In the context of corporate crisis management, engineering companies behave in the same way but it is necessary to monitor individual factors that can detect a corporate crisis. Possible measures would thus lead to the stabilization of financial results and long-term sustainable positive prospects for companies in the future.
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- Jozef Lukáč
- Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice, Department of
Corporate Financial Management, University of Economics in Bratislava,
Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice, Department of
Management, University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava,
Slovakia
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- Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice, Department of
Corporate Financial Management, University of Economics in Bratislava,
Bratislava, Slovakia
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Anser MK, Nassani AA, Zaman K, Abro MMQ. Environmental and natural resource degradation in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: a wake-up call. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:10456-10466. [PMID: 34519987 PMCID: PMC8438285 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16259-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The study's objective is to examine the relationship between COVID-19 cases, environmental sustainability ratings, and mineral resource rents in a large cross section of 97 countries. The emergence of novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) enlarges its magnitude across the international borders and damages social, economic, and environmental infrastructure with a high rate of human death tolls. The mineral resources are also devastated, which served as a primary raw input into the production system. The adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment and mineral resources are studied in a large panel of countries and found that mineral resource rents and population growth improve environmental sustainability rating (ESR). In contrast, an increase in coronavirus cases decreases the rating scale across countries. Further, mineral resources first decrease along with increased COVID-19 cases due to strict government policies, including the mandatory shutdown of economic institutions. Further, mineral resource rents increase later because of resuming economic activities in many parts of the world. The high rate of population growth is another important factor that negatively affects mineral resources across countries. Through impulse response and variance decomposition estimates, an exacerbated coronavirus cases and population growth would likely negatively affect ESR and mineral resources. In contrast, COVID-19 recovered cases will likely play a more significant role in securing mineral resources over time. Therefore, the global mineral resource conservation policies and improving ESR are highly needed during the COVID-19 to keep the significant economic gains in unprecedented times.
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- Muhammad Khalid Anser
- School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710000 China
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- Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Economics, University of Haripur, Haripur Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia
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Abdussalam NB, Usman N, Akadiri SS. Appraising the oil-stock nexus during the COVID-19 pandemic shock: a panel threshold analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:11418-11431. [PMID: 34537937 PMCID: PMC8449701 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16418-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We examine the oil-stock nexus in 24 countries amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and test for threshold effects on oil prices using Hansen (1999) panel dynamic threshold model and recent extensions of Kremer et al. (2013) and Seo and Shin (2016). We find evidence of nonlinearities and threshold effects in oil prices. As an addition to literature, our estimated model shows that stock market prices react in a regime-style manner, when the joint effects of oil prices, exchange rate changes, number of reported cases, and the number of death due to COVID-19 pandemic are analyzed. This is in support of the theoretical model of investor sentiment by Barberis et al. (1998). Therefore, we are of the opinion that policymakers, governments, and investors in their business decision-making process should put into consideration and also observe changes in the global reported cases alongside the number of deaths and how oil prices are evolving, as the global economy is further affected by the COVID-19 pandemic shock.
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- Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
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The speed of the economic downturn in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been exceptional, causing mass layoffs-in Germany up to 30% of the workforce in some industries. Economic rationale suggests that the decision on which workers are fired should depend on productivity-related individual factors. However, from hiring situations we know that discrimination-i.e., decisions driven by characteristics unrelated to productivity-is widespread in Western labor markets. Drawing on representative survey data on forced layoffs and short-time work collected in Germany between April and December 2020, this study highlights that discrimination against immigrants is also present in firing situations. The analysis shows that employees with a migration background are significantly more likely to lose their job than native workers when otherwise healthy firms are unexpectedly forced to let go of part of their workforce, while firms make more efforts to substitute firing with short-time working schemes for their native workers. Adjusting for detailed job-related characteristics shows that the findings are unlikely to be driven by systematic differences in productivity between migrants and natives. Moreover, using industry-specific variation in the extent of the economic downturn, I demonstrate that layoff probabilities hardly differ across the less affected industries, but that the gap between migrants and natives increases with the magnitude of the shock. In the hardest-hit industries, job loss probability among migrants is three times higher than among natives. This confirms the hypothesis that firing discrimination puts additional pressure on the immigrant workforce in times of crisis.
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- Daniel Auer
- University of Mannheim, MZES, Mannheim, Germany
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A return to a business as usual economy would be a fatal mistake argues Ronald Labonté
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- Ronald Labonté
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Eli Y Adashi
- Department of Medical Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Harvard Law, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Persaud N, Woods H, Workentin A, Adekoya I, Dunn JR, Hwang SW, Maguire J, Pinto AD, O'Campo P, Rourke SB, Werb D. Recommandations pour une reprise équitable après la pandémie de COVID-19 au Canada. CMAJ 2022; 194:E60-E72. [PMID: 35039395 PMCID: PMC8900790 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.210904-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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- Nav Persaud
- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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- Centre MAP pour des solutions en santé urbaine (Persaud, Wood, Workentin, Adekoya, Dunn, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto, O'Campo, Rourke, Werb), Hôpital St. Michael du Réseau hospitalier Unity Health Toronto; Faculté de médecine (Persaud, Hwang, Maguire, Pinto) et Département de psychiatrie (Rourke), Faculté de médecine, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ont
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Gunay S, Can G. The source of financial contagion and spillovers: An evaluation of the covid-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0261835. [PMID: 35030202 PMCID: PMC8759666 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This study investigates the reaction of stock markets to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC) and compares their influence in terms of risk exposures. The empirical investigation is conducted using the modified ICSS test, DCC-GARCH, and Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness analysis to examine financial contagion and volatility spillovers. To further reveal the impact of these two crises, the statistical features of tranquil and crisis periods under different time intervals are also compared. The test results show that although the outbreak's origin was in China, the US stock market is the source of financial contagion and volatility spillovers during the pandemic, just as it was during the GFC. The propagation of shocks is considerably higher between developed economies compared to emerging markets. Additionally, the results show that the COVID-19 pandemic induced a more severe contagious effect and risk transmission than the GFC. The study provides an extensive examination of the COVID-19 pandemic and the GFC in terms of financial contagion and volatility spillovers. The results suggest the presence of strong co-movements of world stock markets with the US equity market, especially in periods of financial turmoil.
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- Samet Gunay
- Finance Department, College of Business Administration, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait
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- Accounting Department, College of Business Administration, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait
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The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is a complex and multivariate process differentiated across countries, and geographical distance is acceptable as a critical determinant of the uneven spreading. Although social connectivity is a defining condition for virus transmission, the network paradigm in the study of the COVID-19 spatio-temporal spread has not been used accordingly. Toward contributing to this demand, this paper uses network analysis to develop a multidimensional methodological framework for understanding the uneven (cross-country) spread of COVID-19 in the context of the globally interconnected economy. The globally interconnected system of tourism mobility is modeled as a complex network and studied within the context of a three-dimensional (3D) conceptual model composed of network connectivity, economic openness, and spatial impedance variables. The analysis reveals two main stages in the temporal spread of COVID-19, defined by the cutting-point of the 44th day from Wuhan. The first describes the outbreak in Asia and North America, the second stage in Europe, South America, and Africa, while the outbreak in Oceania intermediates. The analysis also illustrates that the average node degree exponentially decays as a function of COVID-19 emergence time. This finding implies that the highly connected nodes, in the Global Tourism Network (GTN), are disproportionally earlier infected by the pandemic than the other nodes. Moreover, countries with the same network centrality as China are early infected on average by COVID-19. The paper also finds that network interconnectedness, economic openness, and transport integration are critical determinants in the early global spread of the pandemic, and it reveals that the spatio-temporal patterns of the worldwide spreading of COVID-19 are more a matter of network interconnectivity than of spatial proximity.
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- Dimitrios Tsiotas
- Department of Regional and Economic Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Nea Poli, 33100, Amfissa, Greece.
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- Department of Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 17671, Athens, Greece
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van Ruitenbeek RE, Slik JS, Bhulai S. On the relation between COVID-19, mobility, and the stock market. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0261381. [PMID: 34962952 PMCID: PMC8714095 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought forth a major landscape shock in the mobility sector. Due to its recentness, researchers have just started studying and understanding the implications of this crisis on mobility. We contribute by combining mobility data from various sources to bring a novel angle to understanding mobility patterns during Covid-19. The goal is to expose relations between mobility and Covid-19 variables and understand them by using our data. This is crucial information for governments to understand and address the underlying root causes of the impact.
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- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Knapp ME, Partington LC, Hodge RT, Ugarte E, Hastings PD. We're all in this together: Focus on community attenuates effects of pandemic-related financial hardship on reactance to COVID-19 public health regulations. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0260782. [PMID: 34941891 PMCID: PMC8699617 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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There has been resistance to COVID-19 public health restrictions partly due to changes and reductions in work, resulting in financial stress. Psychological reactance theory posits that such restrictions to personal freedoms result in anger, defiance, and motivation to restore freedom. In an online study (N = 301), we manipulated the target of COVID-19 restrictions as impacting self or community. We hypothesized that (a) greater pandemic-related financial stress would predict greater reactance, (b) the self-focused restriction condition would elicit greater reactance than the community-focused restriction condition, (c) reactance would be greatest for financially-stressed individuals in the self-focused condition, and (d) greater reactance would predict lower adherence to social distancing guidelines. Independent of political orientation and sense of community, greater financial stress predicted greater reactance only in the self-focused condition; the community-focused condition attenuated this association. Additionally, greater reactance was associated with lower social distancing behavior. These findings suggest that economic hardship exacerbates negative responses to continued personal freedom loss. Community-focused COVID-19 health messaging may be better received during continued pandemic conditions.
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- Michael E. Knapp
- Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Gerry McCartney
- College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, UK
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- Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, UK
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- Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, UK
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Wei X, Li L, Zhang F. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic and sustainability. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:68251-68260. [PMID: 34268692 PMCID: PMC8282265 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14986-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the lives of people around the world in millions of ways . Due to this severe epidemic, all countries in the world have been affected by all aspects, mainly economic. It is widely discussed that the COVID-19 outbreak has affected the world economy. When considering this dimension, this study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, socio-economics, and sustainability. In addition, the research focuses on multiple aspects of social well-being during the pandemic, such as employment, poverty, the status of women, food security, and global trade. To this end, the study used time series and cross-sectional analysis of the data. The second-hand data used in this study comes from the websites of major international organizations. From the analysis of secondary data, the conclusion of this article is that the impact of the pandemic is huge. The main finding of the thesis is that the social economy is affected by the pandemic, causing huge losses in terms of economic well-being and social capital.
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- Xueli Wei
- Harbin Medical University, Daqing, 163319, Heilongjiang, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100102, China
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- Harbin Medical University, Daqing, 163319, Heilongjiang, China
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- Harbin Medical University, Daqing, 163319, Heilongjiang, China.
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Martcheva M, Tuncer N, Ngonghala CN. Effects of social-distancing on infectious disease dynamics: an evolutionary game theory and economic perspective. J Biol Dyn 2021; 15:342-366. [PMID: 34182892 DOI: 10.1080/17513758.2021.1946177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We propose two models inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic: a coupled disease-human behaviour (or disease-game theoretic), and a coupled disease-human behaviour-economic model, both of which account for the impact of social-distancing on disease control and economic growth. The models exhibit rich dynamical behaviour including multistable equilibria, a backward bifurcation, and sustained bounded periodic oscillations. Analyses of the first model suggests that the disease can be eliminated if everybody practices full social-distancing, but the most likely outcome is some level of disease coupled with some level of social-distancing. The same outcome is observed with the second model when the economy is weaker than the social norms to follow health directives. However, if the economy is stronger, it can support some level of social-distancing that can lead to disease elimination.
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- Maia Martcheva
- Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic, it has several specificities influencing its outcomes due to the entwinement of several factors, which anthropologists have called "syndemics". Drawing upon Singer and Clair's syndemics model, I focus on synergistic interaction among chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes, and COVID-19 in Pakistan. I argue that over 36 million people in Pakistan are standing at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, developing severe complications, and losing their lives. These two diseases, but several other socio-cultural, economic, and political factors contributing to structured vulnerabilities, would function as confounders. To deal with the critical effects of these syndemics the government needs appropriate policies and their implementation during the pandemic and post-pandemic. To eliminate or at least minimize various vulnerabilities, Pakistan needs drastic changes, especially to overcome (formal) illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, gender difference, and rural and urban difference.
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- Inayat Ali
- Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Tan MMJ, Neill R, Haldane V, Jung AS, De Foo C, Tan SM, Shrestha P, Verma M, Bonk M, Abdalla SM, Legido-Quigley H. Assessing the role of qualitative factors in pandemic responses. BMJ 2021; 375:e067512. [PMID: 34840137 PMCID: PMC8624757 DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Melisa Mei Jin Tan
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, US
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- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Berlin Institute of Global Health
- Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat
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- School of Public Health, Boston University, US
- Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat
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Ligo AK, Mahoney E, Cegan J, Trump BD, Jin AS, Kitsak M, Keenan J, Linkov I. Relationship among state reopening policies, health outcomes and economic recovery through first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0260015. [PMID: 34793504 PMCID: PMC8601438 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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State governments in the U.S. have been facing difficult decisions involving tradeoffs between economic and health-related outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite evidence of the effectiveness of government-mandated restrictions mitigating the spread of contagion, these orders are stigmatized due to undesirable economic consequences. This tradeoff resulted in state governments employing mandates at widely different ways. We compare the different policies states implemented during periods of restriction ("lockdown") and reopening with indicators of COVID-19 spread and consumer card spending at each state during the first "wave" of the pandemic in the U.S. between March and August 2020. We find that while some states enacted reopening decisions when the incidence rate of COVID-19 was minimal or sustained in its relative decline, other states relaxed socioeconomic restrictions near their highest incidence and prevalence rates experienced so far. Nevertheless, all states experienced similar trends in consumer card spending recovery, which was strongly correlated with reopening policies following the lockdowns and relatively independent from COVID-19 incidence rates at the time. Our findings suggest that consumer card spending patterns can be attributed to government mandates rather than COVID-19 incidence in the states. We estimate the recovery in states that reopened in late April was more than the recovery in states that did not reopen in the same period- 15% for consumer card spending and 18% for spending by high income households. This result highlights the important role of state policies in minimizing health impacts while promoting economic recovery and helps planning effective interventions in subsequent waves and immunization efforts.
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- Alexandre K. Ligo
- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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- School of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Latif Y, Shunqi G, Bashir S, Iqbal W, Ali S, Ramzan M. COVID-19 and stock exchange return variation: empirical evidences from econometric estimation. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:60019-60031. [PMID: 34155586 PMCID: PMC8216325 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14792-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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This research looked at the effects of COVID-19 on a number of the world's most important stock exchanges, as well as the empirical relation between the COVID-19 wave and stock market volatility. In order to plan proper portfolio diversification in international financial markets, researchers must examine COVID-19 anxiety in relation to stock market volatility. The stock market volatility connected with the COVID-19 pandemic was measured using AR(1)-GARCH(1,1). COVID-19 fear, according to our research, is the ultimate driver of public attention and stock market volatility. The findings show that throughout the pandemic, stock market performance and GDP growth both declined significantly due to average increases. Furthermore, a 1% increase in COVID-19 causes a 0.8% and 0.56% decline in stock return and GDP, respectively. The stock market, on the other hand, showed a slight movement in GDP growth. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic reported cases index, death index, and global panic index all influenced public perceptions of purchasing and selling. As a result, rather than investing in stocks, it is recommended that you invest in gold. The research also makes policy recommendations for important stakeholders. We look to examine how stock returns respond dynamically to unanticipated changes in the COVID-19 scenarios, as well as the uncertainty that comes with a pandemic. Using daily data from Canada and the USA, we conclude that a spike in COVID-19 instances has a negative impact on the stock market in general. Furthermore, in both the increase and decline scenarios in Canada, the stock return reactions are asymmetric. The disparity is due to the unfavorable impact of the pandemic's unpredictability. We also discovered that uncertainty had a negative impact on the US stock market. The magnitude, however, is insignificant.
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- Yousaf Latif
- Institute of International Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of International Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 People’s Republic of China
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- Business Studies Department, Namal Institute, Mianwali, Pakistan
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- Department of Management Science, College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of International Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of International Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071 People’s Republic of China
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Anser MK, Khan MA, Nassani AA, Abro MMQ, Zaman K, Kabbani A. Does COVID-19 pandemic disrupt sustainable supply chain process? Covering some new global facts. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:59792-59804. [PMID: 34146331 PMCID: PMC8214375 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14817-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The adverse effects of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are widely visible in the economic structure, while the principal causal factor is the disruption of the supply chain process that leads to the economies into a global depression. The purpose of the study is to identify the critical factors that affect the global sustainable supply chain process in the cross-sectional panel of 38 European countries, 14 North American countries, 40 Asian countries, and a heterogeneous panel of 111 countries. The results show that an increase in susceptible coronavirus cases and death tolls limits the supply chain process because of nationwide closures of industries and business activities. In contrast, an increase in the number of recovered cases supports economic activities and improved logistic performance index across countries. The innovation accounting matrix shows that since August 2020, the global coronavirus cases will decline and start resuming economic activities to increase the supply chain process. The result is further supported by the estimates of reduction in the proportion of death to recovered cases (case fatality ratio 1) to increase sustainable logistics activities. However, the supply chain process could affect an increasing death toll and case fatality ratio 2 (i.e., the proportion of death to registered cases) over time. The global economies should ensure a free flow of sustainable logistics supply, especially the supply of healthcare medical equipment that would help control the coronavirus pandemic, which escapes from the nations from a global depression.
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- Muhammad Khalid Anser
- School of Public Administration, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710000 China
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- Department of Economics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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- Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh, 11587 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Economics, University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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- Department of Management, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
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Iloskics Z, Sebestyén T, Braun E. Shock propagation channels behind the global economic contagion network. The role of economic sectors and the direction of trade. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0258309. [PMID: 34669711 PMCID: PMC8528308 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Examining the spread of macroeconomic phenomena between countries has become increasingly popular after the 2008 economic crisis, but the recent COVID-19 pandemic rendered this issue much more relevant as it shed more light on the risks arising from strongly interconnected economies. This paper intends to extend previous studies in this line by examining the relationship between trade openness and business cycle synchronization. It extends the scope of previous analyses in three areas. First, we use a Granger-causality approach to identify synchronization. Second, trade is broken down to the sector level and third, we distinguish between upstream and downstream connections. These developments allow for a directed approach in the analysis. We use conditional logit regressions to estimate the effect of trade openness on the probability of shock-transmission. The results presented in this study contribute to the literature in two ways. First, in addition to revealing a positive effect of aggregate two-way trade on shock-contagion, it also points out that this overall effect hides diverse behavior in specific trading sectors as well as upstream and downstream channels. Second, while some sectors are not significant channels of shock-transmission in either directions, upstream channels seem to be important in agriculture while downstream channels dominate machinery and other manufactures. Also, there are sectors (chemicals and related products) trade in which affects shock-transmission negatively.
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- Zita Iloskics
- Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- ELRN, CERS, Institute for Regional Studies, Pécs, Hungary
- EconNet Research Group, UPFBE, Pécs, Hungary
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- Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- EconNet Research Group, UPFBE, Pécs, Hungary
- MTA-PTE Innovation and Economic Growth Research Group, Pécs, Hungary
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- Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
- ELRN, CERS, Institute for Regional Studies, Pécs, Hungary
- EconNet Research Group, UPFBE, Pécs, Hungary
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Luo W, Guo W, Hu S, Yang M, Hu X, Xiong C. Flatten the curve: Empirical evidence on how non-pharmaceutical interventions substituted pharmaceutical treatments during COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0258379. [PMID: 34634078 PMCID: PMC8504736 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Non-Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical treatments were alternative strategies for governments to intervene. Though many of these intervention methods proved to be effective to stop the spread of COVID-19, i.e., lockdown and curfew, they also posed risk to the economy; in such a scenario, an analysis on how to strike a balance becomes urgent. Our research leverages the mobility big data from the University of Maryland COVID-19 Impact Analysis Platform and employs the Generalized Additive Model (GAM), to understand how the social demographic variables, NPTs (Non-Pharmaceutical Treatments) and PTs (Pharmaceutical Treatments) affect the New Death Rate (NDR) at county-level. We also portray the mutual and interactive effects of NPTs and PTs on NDR. Our results show that there exists a specific usage rate of PTs where its marginal effect starts to suppress the NDR growth, and this specific rate can be reduced through implementing the NPTs.
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- Weiyu Luo
- Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
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- Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management and Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
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- Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
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- Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
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- Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
- Shock Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR) Center, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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Li K, Foutz NZ, Cai Y, Liang Y, Gao S. Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and stimulus payments on low-income population's spending in the United States. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256407. [PMID: 34495996 PMCID: PMC8425560 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the economy and human lives worldwide, particularly the vulnerable low-income population. We employ a large panel data of 5.6 million daily transactions from 2.6 million debit cards owned by the low-income population in the U.S. to quantify the joint impacts of the state lockdowns and stimulus payments on this population's spending along the inter-temporal, geo-spatial, and cross-categorical dimensions. Leveraging the difference-in-differences analyses at the per card and zip code levels, we uncover three key findings. (1) Inter-temporally, the state lockdowns diminished the daily average spending relative to the same period in 2019 by $3.9 per card and $2,214 per zip code, whereas the stimulus payments elevated the daily average spending by $15.7 per card and $3,307 per zip code. (2) Spatial heterogeneity prevailed: Democratic zip codes displayed much more volatile dynamics, with an initial decline three times that of Republican zip codes, followed by a higher rebound and a net gain after the stimulus payments; also, Southwest exhibited the highest initial decline whereas Southeast had the largest net gain after the stimulus payments. (3) Across 26 categories, the stimulus payments promoted spending in those categories that enhanced public health and charitable donations, reduced food insecurity and digital divide, while having also stimulated non-essential and even undesirable categories, such as liquor and cigar. In addition, spatial association analysis was employed to identify spatial dependency and local hot spots of spending changes at the county level. Overall, these analyses reveal the imperative need for more geo- and category-targeted stimulus programs, as well as more effective and strategic policy communications, to protect and promote the well-being of the low-income population during public health and economic crises.
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- Kangli Li
- Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Geospatial Data Science Lab, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Geospatial Data Science Lab, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Geospatial Data Science Lab, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Holz M, Mayerl J. Early days of the pandemic-The association of economic and socio-political country characteristics with the development of the COVID-19 death toll. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256736. [PMID: 34464429 PMCID: PMC8407552 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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This article examines cross-national differences in growth of deaths by COVID-19 over time in the first phase of the pandemic, during the time period of 31st December 2019 to 2nd April 2020. We seek to understand and explain country level reaction in the initial period of the pandemic. We explore socio-economic and socio-political country characteristics as determinants of deaths per day and we examine whether country characteristics act as moderating factors for different growth patterns of deaths per day over time. The country characteristics include variables about economy, globalization, health care and demography. We examine data published by the European Center of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in combination with World Bank data and a webscraping approach. Using a conditional growth model specified as a multilevel regression model with deaths by COVID-19 per day as the outcome variable, we show that economic variables are not significantly associated with decrease or increase of deaths by COVID-19. In contrast, variables about national health care mitigate the impact of the pandemic. Demography shows expected effects with an increase of growth of deaths in countries with a higher percentage of people older than 65 years. Globalization predicts the death toll as well: Social interaction between people is deadly on a short-term scale (in the form of tourism). Our results mirror frequent demands for global investment in national health systems.
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- Manuel Holz
- Institute for Sociology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
- * E-mail:
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- Institute for Sociology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
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Sevtsuk A, Hudson A, Halpern D, Basu R, Ng K, de Jong J. The impact of COVID-19 on trips to urban amenities: Examining travel behavior changes in Somerville, MA. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252794. [PMID: 34469450 PMCID: PMC8409662 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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While there has been much speculation on how the pandemic has affected work location patterns and home location choices, there is sparse evidence regarding the impacts that COVID-19 has had on amenity visits in American cities, which typically constitute over half of all urban trips. Using aggregate app-based GPS positioning data from smartphone users, this study traces the changes in amenity visits in Somerville, MA from January 2019 to December 2020, describing how visits to particular types of amenities have changed as a result of business closures during the public health emergency. Has the pandemic fundamentally shifted amenity-oriented travel behavior or is consumer behavior returning to pre-pandemic trends? To address this question, we calibrate discrete choice models that are suited to Census block-group level analysis for each of the 24 months in a two-year period, and use them to analyze how visitors' behavioral responses to various attributes of amenity clusters have shifted during different phases of the pandemic. Our findings suggest that in the first few months of the pandemic, amenity-visiting preferences significantly diverged from expected patterns. Even though overall trip volumes remained far below normal levels throughout the remainder of the year, preferences towards specific cluster attributes mostly returned to expected levels by September 2020. We also construct two scenarios to explore the implications of another shutdown and a full reopening, based on November 2020 consumer behavior. While government restrictions have played an important role in reducing visits to amenity clusters, our results imply that cautionary consumer behavior has played an important role as well, suggesting a likely long and slow path to economic recovery. By drawing on mobile phone location data and behavioral modeling, this paper offers timely insights to help decision-makers understand how this unprecedented health emergency is affecting amenity-related trips and where the greatest needs for intervention and support may exist.
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- Andres Sevtsuk
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mobility Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Background/aim The Covid-19 pandemic is one of those rare events that affects everyone on earth and changes our lives. The pandemic, which has killed over four million people worldwide, is putting unprecedented pressure on governments to maintain essential health and social services, as well as keep their economies running, even as the virus threatens people’s daily life on every level. Thus, the purpose of this study is to discuss the short-term economic impact of the pandemic by assessing its costs using official economic data for both the world and Turkey. Furthermore, this research highlights possible economic, social, and political pathways for a postpandemic new world. Materials and methods This study is a review article that overviews and tracks the economic development of the Covid-19 pandemic from the start, synthesizes and compares current data of reliable institutions, and provides an overall assessment. Results The pandemic has certainly caused short-term and long-term damage to economies and living standards for many people. Although there are estimates on what this damage is, the exact degree of the damage is still unknown. However, it seems that the recovery will be gradual, long-lasting, and unpredictable due to the unprecedented uncertainty characteristic of the pandemic. Conclusion Early economic growth projections show that there will be no ordinary recovery for the world economy since short-term countries’ recovery paths are different. It is likely to remain uneven and depend on the effectiveness of the vaccination process, fiscal policy support, public health management, and hard-hit sectors’ growth size in economies. Due to the uncertainty and lack of confidence, governments should ensure an equal and sustainable economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting flexible monetary and fiscal policies. However, without structural reforms, economies can not boost either in the short-term and long-term.
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- Ömer AÇIKGÖZ
- Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Science, Social Sciences University of Ankara, AnkaraTurkey
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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- Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Science, Social Sciences University of Ankara, AnkaraTurkey
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Singh DR, Sunuwar DR, Shah SK, Sah LK, Karki K, Sah RK. Food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic: A genuine concern for people from disadvantaged community and low-income families in Province 2 of Nepal. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0254954. [PMID: 34288965 PMCID: PMC8294479 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Food insecurity is a serious social and public health problem which is exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic especially in resource-poor countries such as Nepal. However, there is a paucity of evidence at local levels. This study aims to explore food insecurity among people from the disadvantaged community and low-income families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Province-2 of Nepal. METHODS The semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted virtually among purposively selected participants (n = 41) from both urban and rural areas in eight districts of Province 2 in Nepal. All the interviews were conducted in the local language between July and August 2020. The data analysis was performed using thematic network analysis in Nvivo 12 Pro software. RESULTS The results of this study are grouped into four global themes: i) Impact of COVID-19 on food security; ii) Food insecurity and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, iii) Food relief and emergency support during the COVID-19 pandemic, and iv) Impact of COVID-19 and food insecurity on health and wellbeing. Most participants in the study expressed that families from low socioeconomic backgrounds and disadvantaged communities such as those working on daily wages and who rely on remittance had experienced increased food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants used different forms of coping strategies to meet their food requirements during the pandemic. Community members experienced favouritism, nepotism, and partiality from local politicians and authorities during the distribution of food relief. The food insecurity among low-income and disadvantaged families has affected their health and wellbeing making them increasingly vulnerable to the COVID-19 infection. CONCLUSION Food insecurity among low-income and disadvantaged families was found to be a serious problem during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study suggests that the relief support plan and policies should be focused on the implementation of immediate sustainable food security strategies to prevent hunger, malnutrition, and mental health problems among the most vulnerable groups in the community.
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- Devendra Raj Singh
- Department of Public Health, Asian College for Advance Studies, Purbanchal University, Lalitpur, Nepal
- Research and Innovation Section, Southeast Asia Development Actions Network (SADAN), Lalitpur, Nepal
- Research Section, Swadesh Development Foundation (SDF), Siraha, Province-2, Nepal
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Armed Police Force Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Program Section, Bagmati Welfare Society Nepal, Sarlahi, Province-2, Nepal
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- Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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- Department of Public Health, Asian College for Advance Studies, Purbanchal University, Lalitpur, Nepal
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- Department of Allied Health Professions, Sports and Exercise, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Chen YS, Zhou ZN, Glynn SM, Frey MK, Balogun OD, Kanis M, Holcomb K, Gorelick C, Thomas C, Christos PJ, Chapman‐Davis E. Financial toxicity, mental health, and gynecologic cancer treatment: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic among low-income women in New York City. Cancer 2021; 127:2399-2408. [PMID: 33899220 PMCID: PMC8239639 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND New York City (NYC) emerged as an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, and marginalized populations were affected at disproportionate rates. The authors sought to determine the impact of COVID-19 on cancer treatment, anxiety, and financial distress among low-income patients with gynecologic cancer during the peak of the NYC pandemic. METHODS Medicaid-insured women who were receiving gynecologic oncology care at 2 affiliated centers were contacted by telephone interviews between March 15 and April 15, 2020. Demographics and clinical characteristics were obtained through self-report and retrospective chart review. Financial toxicity, anxiety, and cancer worry were assessed using modified, validated surveys. RESULTS In total, 100 patients completed the telephone interview. The median age was 60 years (range, 19-86 years), and 71% had an annual income <$40,000. A change in employment status and early stage cancer (stage I and II) were associated with an increase in financial distress (P < .001 and P = .008, respectively). Early stage cancer and telehealth participation were significantly associated with increased worry about future finances (P = .017 and P = .04, respectively). Lower annual income (<$40,000) was associated with increased cancer worry and anxiety compared with higher annual income (>$40,000; P = .036 and P = .017, respectively). When controlling for telehealth participation, income, primary language, and residence in a high COVID-19 prevalence area, a delay in medical care resulted in a 4-fold increased rate of anxiety (P = .023, 95% CI, 1.278-14.50). Race was not significantly associated with increased financial distress, cancer worry, or anxiety. CONCLUSIONS Low socioeconomic status was the most common risk factor for increased financial distress, cancer worry, and anxiety. Interventions aimed at improving access to timely oncology care should be implemented during this ongoing pandemic.
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- Yiting Stefanie Chen
- Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Department of Radiation OncologyWeill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyNew York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyNew York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist HospitalNew YorkNew York
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- Clinical and Translational Science CenterDepartment of Biostatistics and EpidemiologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Clinical and Translational Science CenterDepartment of Biostatistics and EpidemiologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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- Division of Gynecologic OncologyDepartment of Obstetrics and GynecologyWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew YorkNew York
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