TY - JOUR
T1 - The Global Health Security Index is not predictive of coronavirus pandemic responses among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries
AU - Abbey, Enoch J.
AU - Khalifa, Banda A.A.
AU - Oduwole, Modupe O.
AU - Ayeh, Samuel K.
AU - Nudotor, Richard D.
AU - Salia, Emmanuella L.
AU - Lasisi, Oluwatobi
AU - Bennett, Seth
AU - Yusuf, Hasiya E.
AU - Agwu, Allison L.
AU - Karakousis, Petros C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Abbey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many countries with ripple effects felt in various sectors of the global economy. In November 2019, the Global Health Security (GHS) Index was released as the first detailed assessment and benchmarking of 195 countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. This paper presents the first comparison of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD countries' performance during the pandemic, with the pre-COVID-19 pandemic preparedness as determined by the GHS Index. Using a rank-based analysis, four indices were compared between select countries, including total cases, total deaths, recovery rate, and total tests performed, all standardized for comparison. Our findings suggest a discrepancy between the GHS index rating and the actual performance of countries during this pandemic, with an overestimation of the preparedness of some countries scoring highly on the GHS index and underestimation of the preparedness of other countries with relatively lower scores on the GHS index.
AB - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many countries with ripple effects felt in various sectors of the global economy. In November 2019, the Global Health Security (GHS) Index was released as the first detailed assessment and benchmarking of 195 countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. This paper presents the first comparison of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD countries' performance during the pandemic, with the pre-COVID-19 pandemic preparedness as determined by the GHS Index. Using a rank-based analysis, four indices were compared between select countries, including total cases, total deaths, recovery rate, and total tests performed, all standardized for comparison. Our findings suggest a discrepancy between the GHS index rating and the actual performance of countries during this pandemic, with an overestimation of the preparedness of some countries scoring highly on the GHS index and underestimation of the preparedness of other countries with relatively lower scores on the GHS index.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0239398
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0239398
M3 - Article
C2 - 33027257
AN - SCOPUS:85092605890
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 15
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 10 October
M1 - e0239398
ER -