TY - JOUR
T1 - An examination of COVID-19 mitigation efficiency among 23 countries
AU - Su, Emily Chia Yu
AU - Hsiao, Cheng Hsing
AU - Chen, Yi Tui
AU - Yu, Shih Heng
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This study was funded in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan under grant number MOST 108-2410-H-227-008 to Yi-Tui Chen.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The purpose of this paper was to compare the relative efficiency of COVID-19 transmission mitigation among 23 selected countries, including 19 countries in the G20, two heavily infected countries (Iran and Spain), and two highly populous countries (Pakistan and Nigeria). The mitigation efficiency for each country was evaluated at each stage by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) tools and changes in mitigation efficiency were analyzed across stages. Pearson correlation tests were conducted between each change to examine the impact of efficiency ranks in the previous stage on subsequent stages. An indicator was developed to judge epidemic stability and was applied to practical cases involving lifting travel restrictions and restarting the economy in some countries. The results showed that Korea and Australia performed with the highest efficiency in preventing the diffusion of COVID-19 for the whole period covering 105 days since the first confirmed case, while the USA ranked at the bottom. China, Japan, Korea, and Australia were judged to have recovered from the attack of COVID-19 due to higher epidemic stability.
AB - The purpose of this paper was to compare the relative efficiency of COVID-19 transmission mitigation among 23 selected countries, including 19 countries in the G20, two heavily infected countries (Iran and Spain), and two highly populous countries (Pakistan and Nigeria). The mitigation efficiency for each country was evaluated at each stage by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) tools and changes in mitigation efficiency were analyzed across stages. Pearson correlation tests were conducted between each change to examine the impact of efficiency ranks in the previous stage on subsequent stages. An indicator was developed to judge epidemic stability and was applied to practical cases involving lifting travel restrictions and restarting the economy in some countries. The results showed that Korea and Australia performed with the highest efficiency in preventing the diffusion of COVID-19 for the whole period covering 105 days since the first confirmed case, while the USA ranked at the bottom. China, Japan, Korea, and Australia were judged to have recovered from the attack of COVID-19 due to higher epidemic stability.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Epidemic stability
KW - Mitigation efficiency
KW - Stay-at-home order
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U2 - 10.3390/healthcare9060755
DO - 10.3390/healthcare9060755
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108880283
VL - 9
JO - Healthcare (Switzerland)
JF - Healthcare (Switzerland)
IS - 6
M1 - 755
ER -
