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The Global Health Security Index is not predictive of coronavirus pandemic responses among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 10, p e0239398 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020.
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Abstract
- The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many countries with ripple effects felt in various sectors of the global economy. In November 2019, the Global Health Security (GHS) Index was released as the first detailed assessment and benchmarking of 195 countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. This paper presents the first comparison of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD countries’ performance during the pandemic, with the pre-COVID-19 pandemic preparedness as determined by the GHS Index. Using a rank-based analysis, four indices were compared between select countries, including total cases, total deaths, recovery rate, and total tests performed, all standardized for comparison. Our findings suggest a discrepancy between the GHS index rating and the actual performance of countries during this pandemic, with an overestimation of the preparedness of some countries scoring highly on the GHS index and underestimation of the preparedness of other countries with relatively lower scores on the GHS index.
- Subjects :
- Viral Diseases
Security index
Index (economics)
Epidemiology
0211 other engineering and technologies
Social Sciences
02 engineering and technology
Global Health
Geographical locations
Medical Conditions
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
Medicine and Health Sciences
Global health
Public and Occupational Health
National Security
030212 general & internal medicine
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Virus Testing
Multidisciplinary
Mortality rate
Benchmarking
Europe
Infectious Diseases
Preparedness
Quarantine
Medicine
Coronavirus Infections
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
Research Article
Estonia
National security
Death Rates
Health Personnel
Political Science
Science
Pneumonia, Viral
Economic cooperation
Betacoronavirus
03 medical and health sciences
Population Metrics
Diagnostic Medicine
Environmental health
Humans
European Union
Pandemics
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Population Biology
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
COVID-19
Biology and Life Sciences
Covid 19
Oecd countries
United States
North America
Business
People and places
Delivery of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dc61c4b8cfa0129ba9de2bbd488dc715