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Socioeconomic Conditioning of the Development of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Global Spatial Differentiation

The COVID pandemic very quickly became the world’s most serious social and economic problem. This paper’s focus is on the spatial aspect of its spread, with the aims being to point to spatial conditioning underpinning development of the pandemic, and to identify and assess possible socio-economic fe...

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Autores principales: Bański, Jerzy, Mazur, Marcin, Kamińska, Wioletta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33946284
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094802
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author Bański, Jerzy
Mazur, Marcin
Kamińska, Wioletta
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description The COVID pandemic very quickly became the world’s most serious social and economic problem. This paper’s focus is on the spatial aspect of its spread, with the aims being to point to spatial conditioning underpinning development of the pandemic, and to identify and assess possible socio-economic features exerting an impact on that. Particular attention has been paid to the percentage of positive tests for the presence of the coronavirus, as well as mortality due to the disease it causes. The statistics used relate to 102 countries, with the research for each extending from the time first cases of COVID-19 were reported through to 18 November 2020. The focus of investigation has been the stochastic co-occurrence of both a morbidity index and a mortality index, with intentionally selected socio-economic variables. Results have then been summarized through the classification of countries in relation to the two indices. Highest values relate to Latin America. A significant co-occurrence of morbidity and mortality with GDP per capita has been identified, as values for the indices are found to be lower in wealthier countries. The basic conclusion is that the dependency of the pandemic on environmental and socio-economic conditioning became more complex and ambiguous, while also being displaced gradually as concrete political decisions came to be taken.
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spelling pubmed-81251262021-05-17 Socioeconomic Conditioning of the Development of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Global Spatial Differentiation Bański, Jerzy Mazur, Marcin Kamińska, Wioletta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The COVID pandemic very quickly became the world’s most serious social and economic problem. This paper’s focus is on the spatial aspect of its spread, with the aims being to point to spatial conditioning underpinning development of the pandemic, and to identify and assess possible socio-economic features exerting an impact on that. Particular attention has been paid to the percentage of positive tests for the presence of the coronavirus, as well as mortality due to the disease it causes. The statistics used relate to 102 countries, with the research for each extending from the time first cases of COVID-19 were reported through to 18 November 2020. The focus of investigation has been the stochastic co-occurrence of both a morbidity index and a mortality index, with intentionally selected socio-economic variables. Results have then been summarized through the classification of countries in relation to the two indices. Highest values relate to Latin America. A significant co-occurrence of morbidity and mortality with GDP per capita has been identified, as values for the indices are found to be lower in wealthier countries. The basic conclusion is that the dependency of the pandemic on environmental and socio-economic conditioning became more complex and ambiguous, while also being displaced gradually as concrete political decisions came to be taken. MDPI 2021-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8125126/ /pubmed/33946284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094802 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Socioeconomic Conditioning of the Development of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Global Spatial Differentiation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33946284
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094802
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