The first 100 days of COVID-19 coronavirus – How efficient did country health systems perform to flatten the curve in the first wave?
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Keywords
Pandemic; COVID-19; Flattening the Curve; Data Envelopment Analysis; Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions; Healthcare; Technical Efficiency; Healthcare system efficiency barometer.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2020-08-10 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-HEA-2020-08-10 (Health Economics)
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