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Role of the Health System in Combating Covid-19: Cross-Section Analysis and Artificial Neural Network Simulation for 124 Country Cases        
Yazarlar
Yüksel Bayraktar
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Ayfer Özyılmaz
Gümüşhane Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Metin Toprak
İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Esme Işık
Malatya Turgut Özal Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Figen Büyükakın
Kocaeli Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Öğr. Gör. Mehmet Fırat OLGUN
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
In the fight against Covid-19, developed countries and developing countries diverge in success. This drew attention to the discussion of how different health systems and different levels of health spending are effective in combating Covid-19. In this study, the role of the health system in the fight against Covid-19 is discussed. In this context, the number of hospital beds, the number of doctors, life expectancy at 60, universal health service and the share of health expenditures in GDP were used as health indicators. In the study, firstly 2020 data was estimated by using the Artificial Neural Networks simulation method and this year was used in the analysis. The model, with the data of 124 countries, was estimated using the cross-sectional OLS regression method. The estimation results show that the number of hospital beds, number of doctors and life expectancy at the age of 60 have statistically significant and positive effects on the ratio of Covid-19 recovered/cases. Universal health service and share of health expenditures in GDP are not significant statistically on the cases and recovered. Hospital bed capacity is the most effective variable on the recovered/case ratio.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Covid-19 | global health | healthcare system | Novel Coronavirus
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Social Work in Public Health
Dergi ISSN 1937-1918
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SSCI
Dergi Grubu Q2
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 02-2021
Cilt No 36
Sayı 2
Sayfalar 178 / 193
Doi Numarası 10.1080/19371918.2020.1856750
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2020.1856750