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Democracy and COVID-19 outcomes
Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021
More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...
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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic : does a public health or medical background help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three …
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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...
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Pandemic buying : Covid-19 and purchasing behaviour of French households
Lorey, Thierry; Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2022
progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we … observe three temporal phases, namely the normal (pre-Covid-19) period, the anticipation period, and the lockdown period … first week of the preventive lockdown saw panic buying with sales jumping by 30%, followed by a more subdued growth during …
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Mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age
Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2021
Overall mobility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because of government lockdowns and voluntary social distancing. Yet, aggregate data mask important heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized and aggregate data provided by...
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From the lockdown to the new normal : an analysis of the limitations to individual mobility in Italy following the Covid-19 crisis
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between municipalities. One day later, new restrictive measures were...
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Optimally targeting interventions in networks during a pandemic : theory and evidence from the networks of nursing homes in the United States
Pongou, Roland; Tchuente, Guy; Tondji, Jean-Baptiste - 2021
between different measures of network centrality and individual lockdown probability with the correlation increasing with the …
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The effect of repeated lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on UK mental health outcomes
Lindley, Joanne; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2021
This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK …
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Profits, pandemics, and lockdown effectiveness in nursing home networks
Pongou, Roland; Sidie, Ghislain Junior; Tchuente, Guy; … - 2022
solution that depends on network structure, lockdown effectiveness, and the planner's tolerable infection incidence. Using … unique data on nursing home networks in the United States, we calibrate the model and jointly quantify state-level lockdown … COVID-19 death rates than not-for-profit nursing homes. In addition, this differential health effect increases with lockdown …
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