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An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries
With the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of society’s capability to deal with an acute health crisis is, once again, brought to the forefront. In the core is the need to broaden the perspective on the determinants of a country’s ability to cope with the spread of the virus. This paper is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33227029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242838 |
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author | Petrović, Dalibor Petrović, Marijana Bojković, Nataša Čokić, Vladan P. |
author_facet | Petrović, Dalibor Petrović, Marijana Bojković, Nataša Čokić, Vladan P. |
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description | With the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of society’s capability to deal with an acute health crisis is, once again, brought to the forefront. In the core is the need to broaden the perspective on the determinants of a country’s ability to cope with the spread of the virus. This paper is about bringing together diverse aspects of readiness and initial reaction to a COVID-19 outbreak. We proposed an integrated evaluation framework which encapsulates six dimensions of readiness and initial reaction. Using a specific multi-level outranking method, we analysed how these dimensions affect the relative positioning of European countries in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. The results revealed that the order of countries based on our six-dimensional assessment framework is significantly reminiscent of the actual positioning of countries in terms of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in the initial phase of the pandemic. Our findings confirm that only when a country’s readiness is complemented by an appropriate societal reaction we can expect a less severe outcome. Moreover, our study revealed different patterns of performance between former communist Eastern European and Western European countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-76828912020-12-02 An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries Petrović, Dalibor Petrović, Marijana Bojković, Nataša Čokić, Vladan P. PLoS One Research Article With the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of society’s capability to deal with an acute health crisis is, once again, brought to the forefront. In the core is the need to broaden the perspective on the determinants of a country’s ability to cope with the spread of the virus. This paper is about bringing together diverse aspects of readiness and initial reaction to a COVID-19 outbreak. We proposed an integrated evaluation framework which encapsulates six dimensions of readiness and initial reaction. Using a specific multi-level outranking method, we analysed how these dimensions affect the relative positioning of European countries in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. The results revealed that the order of countries based on our six-dimensional assessment framework is significantly reminiscent of the actual positioning of countries in terms of COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in the initial phase of the pandemic. Our findings confirm that only when a country’s readiness is complemented by an appropriate societal reaction we can expect a less severe outcome. Moreover, our study revealed different patterns of performance between former communist Eastern European and Western European countries. Public Library of Science 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7682891/ /pubmed/33227029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242838 Text en © 2020 Petrović et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Petrović, Dalibor Petrović, Marijana Bojković, Nataša Čokić, Vladan P. An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title | An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title_full | An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title_fullStr | An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title_full_unstemmed | An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title_short | An integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to COVID–19: A study across European countries |
title_sort | integrated view on society readiness and initial reaction to covid–19: a study across european countries |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33227029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242838 |
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