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State of National Healthcare and the Pandemic

In: National and Global Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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That context and initial conditions matter is shown in this chapter, which discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the public healthcare infrastructure and systems during the pre-pandemic period. It is not surprising that countries that managed the pandemic well are those which had robust and well-funded health systems. The context also matters in determining the success or failure of leaders, agents and people in their response to the pandemic. It presents quantitative data on different indicators, namely cases and deaths, excess deaths, infection-fatality ratios. A regression analysis is undertaken to link Covid-19 variables to such social and economic variables as age of the population, urbanization, GDP per capita and climate.

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  • A. S. Bhalla, 2023. "State of National Healthcare and the Pandemic," Springer Books, in: National and Global Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic, chapter 0, pages 23-76, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-29521-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29521-8_2
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