Sociopolitical context and COVID-19 fatality rates in OECD countries: a configurational approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effectiveness of crisis response can be influenced by various structural, cultural, and functional aspects within a social system. This study uses a configurational approach to identify combinations of sociopolitical conditions that lead to a high case fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19 in OECD countries.

Methods

A Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is conducted on a sample of 38 OECD countries. The outcome to be explained is high COVID-19 CFR. The five potentially causal conditions are level of democracy, state capacity, trust in government, health expenditure per capita, and the median age of population. A comprehensive QCA robustness test protocol is applied, which includes sensitivity ranges, fit-oriented robustness, and case-oriented robustness

SUBMITTER: Paykani T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11373141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature