Open AccessAssessing country performances during the Covid-19 pandemic: A Standard devıatıon based range of value method
Author(s) -
Serap Pelin Türkoğlu,
AUTHOR_ID,
Sevgi Eda Tuzcu,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
operational research in engineering sciences: theory and applications/operational research in engineering sciences: theory and applications.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-1747
pISSN - 2620-1607
DOI - 10.31181/oresta081221059t
Subject(s) - pandemic , social distance , poverty , health care , population , montenegro , business , development economics , covid-19 , value (mathematics) , range (aeronautics) , demographic economics , geography , actuarial science , economic growth , economics , statistics , medicine , environmental health , mathematics , disease , engineering , regional science , pathology , aerospace engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In this paper, we compare the pandemic management performance of 22 countries that belong to the middle-high income class based on criteria including the pandemic data, population characteristics, and health system capacity. The management of the COVID-19 pandemic requires considering many and often conflicting aspects at the same time which necessitates an MCDM approach. We use a standard deviation (SDV) based range of value (ROV) method which coincides with the black-box nature of the disease. The weights obtained from the SDV method reveal that the number of COVID-19 deaths, current health expenditure, and deaths due to cardiovascular diseases are the most important criteria. The ROV method indicates that most Asian countries are ranked in higher positions due to their strong healthcare systems and quick implementation of social distancing rules. The lowest performances belong to Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They have experienced an elevated number of deaths due to having an elderly population and inefficient usage of healthcare resources. We also show that extreme poverty is an important determinant of country performance. In countries where poverty is higher, as the case with Indonesia, implementing the social distancing rules becomes almost impossible which affects the overall country performance significantly.