Health Risks and Country Sustainability: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic with Determining Cause-and-Effect Relationships and Their Transformations

Nataliia Letunovska, Mariya Kashcha, Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi (), Serhiy Lyeonov, Nadiia Artyukhova, Marcin Gąsior and Monika Sak-Skowron
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Nataliia Letunovska: Department of Marketing, Sumy State University, 40-007 Sumy, Ukraine
Mariya Kashcha: Department of Economic Cybernetics, Sumy State University, 40-007 Sumy, Ukraine
Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi: Institute of Public Administration and Business, University WSEI, 20-209 Lublin, Poland
Serhiy Lyeonov: Department of Economic Cybernetics, Sumy State University, 40-007 Sumy, Ukraine
Nadiia Artyukhova: Department of Marketing, Sumy State University, 40-007 Sumy, Ukraine
Marcin Gąsior: Faculty of Management, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Monika Sak-Skowron: Faculty of Social Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The authors investigated the coronavirus pandemic as a health and safety risk factor for sustainable state development. The main purpose is to determine the cause-and-effect relationships between the key spheres of society life: economic, financial–budgetary, political-–institutional. The authors hypothesize that these spheres influence each other and that this influence becomes more obvious and important to consider during significant shifts such as health threats and transformations in the public health system. As part of the calculations, the methodology of canonical regression analysis was used, which made it possible to evaluate the influence of a set of indicators using the construction of a correlation matrix. Aggregation of the complex of development indicators for each direction was carried out, and their mutual influence and degree of importance within each group of indicators was determined. The identified interdependencies are valuable for predicting the state of various industries in the future. It was concluded that there were no significant changes between the indicators of the analyzed components of a country’s development in the pre-and post-pandemic period. This makes it possible to state with a high probability that forecasting in the long-term perspective of a country’s development is possible based on the degree of interrelationships between the indicators of individual areas of development. Forecasting can also be based on the trends occurring in a specific related field to correct the upward or downward movement of a particular indicator, and to change the functioning of the complex system under the influence of threats to public health.

Keywords: coronavirus; health-related aspects of sustainability; health policy; economic sphere; political and institutional determinants; financial and budgetary determinants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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