Introducing the Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) Using the Demographic and Health Surveys Data from sub-Saharan Africa

Isaac Koomson (), Moses Okumu () and David Ansong ()
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Isaac Koomson: University of New England
Moses Okumu: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Ansong: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2022, vol. 162, issue 3, No 9, 1149-1175

Abstract: Abstract Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) using a multidimensional approach that draws on the Alkire-Foster methodology. DORI measures disease outbreak resilience in four dimensions: (a) water and hygiene, (b) physical distancing, (c) energy and communication, and (d) economic security and resilience. The paper details the development of DORI and its use by presenting findings from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program. In addition to serving as a resilience index, we illustrate how DORI can be used to produce a disease outbreak vulnerability index (DOVI). As a versatile index, the indicators under each dimension can be tailored to meet country- and region-specific contexts based on indicators appropriate to each context.

Keywords: Disease outbreak; Resilience; Multidimensional index; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 I12 I15 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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