Effective COVID-19 Management Prerequisites: National Culture, Governance, Human Development, and Income Inequality

Barry A. Friedman () and Marissa Wheeler
Additional contact information
Barry A. Friedman: State University of New York at Oswego
Marissa Wheeler: State University of New York at Oswego

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism in the COVID-19 Era, 2021, pp 103-110 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract COVID-19’s profound impact on global health, well-being, social, economic, and political discourse is unparalleled in recent history, perhaps comparable to the 1918 flu pandemic. Despite the worldwide havoc the current pandemic has caused, there are significant differences among nations with respect to testing, tracing, infection, hospitalization, and ultimately, death rates. In order to effectively manage COVID-19 and future pandemics, it is paramount that macro national factors associated with favorable health outcomes be identified and addressed. This research used four independent macro databases and explored the impact of national culture, governance effectiveness, human development and income inequality on COVID-19 outcomes. Surprisingly, HDI and effective governance indicators were significantly but modestly related to national COVID case and deaths per million outcomes, but in unexpected directions. Implications for future research are discussed.

Keywords: COVID-19; Governance; Culture; Income inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-66154-0_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030661540

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66154-0_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().